AI technology develops rapidly as experts debate benefits and risks

Artificial intelligence is developing rapidly. While some are embracing it, others are warning of the potential threats. But both sides agree, the technology is changing how the world operates.

“We’re only two and a half years into the whole AI boom, the first commercially available product launched at the end of November in 2022,” White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks said.

Over the next year, we can see more visual uses for AI. Text-based large language models are shifting toward video, audio and imaging.

“There are paper books, there are electronic books. It doesn’t mean that you use only electronic books now. I have a lot of paper books,” said Margarita Grubina, vice president of business growth at voice-cloning special effects firm Respeecher. “And then there is a different audience for AI-generated content and for content that’s filmed traditional.”

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FILE – Dayret Alaniz works on the circuit board of a thermostat in the Clean Tech Accelerator program at Goodwill Job Connection, April 4, 2024, in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images / Getty Images)

According to Fox News polling, just 11% of registered voters say they use AI daily. But many people are already using the technology without realizing it.

“We say that because of AI, we can now all be artists. Because of AI we can all be programmers. Because of the AI we all be great writers. It raises to bar of everyone, and so I would advise everyone to engage AI,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said.

Algorithms built into your social media platforms curate the content you see. Your car’s navigation apps analyze traffic in real time, and if you have smart thermostats in your home, they are now programmed to learn your routines and adjust the temperature.

“All of the analysis we’ve been doing is that the demand is real,” Constellation President and CEO Joseph Dominguez said. “In the long term, if this continues to grow, there is no alternative but to grow our ability to have 24/7 machines, whether that be nuclear or some new technology that comes along that does the same thing.”

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, speaks onstage at a forum on July 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C.  (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Hill & Valley Forum / Getty Images)

Energy producers, Hollywood and businesses are all finding new ways to utilize AI.

“I use four different AIs every day,” Huang said. “I use them to get second opinions, or I’ll give the same prompt and the same query to all three of them to go do research for me. And I get them to work with each other, so I get better answers.”

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