Illustration part of the Transforming Business Series: People surrounded by a variety of Generative AI examples. Multiple datasets, images, audio and training artificial intelligence programs

In November 2022, a Google senior research director, Douglas Eck, told an audience in New York that it was important for Google to move slowly with artificial intelligence because of "the real risks that this technology can pose if we don't take great care."

Just a few weeks later, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and suddenly everything changed as the generative-AI chatbot quickly spread in use.