People facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, the Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross famously wrote, experience five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The same could also be said of our response to AI’s rapidly expanding capabilities. At first, it seemed as if AI would not amount to more than a glorified search engine or a chatbot that does a decent job of simulating a human being. That made it easy enough to deny that the technology would hav