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Artificial intelligence (AI) used to be something we thought about as a future need or threat. Even as recently as 2022, the impact of AI on our daily lives was indirect. Companies employed AI systems that ran behind a user interface. Even though we have interacted with AI for several years, we did not necessarily know when AI was in the background. All that changed in November of 2022.