We are in a kind of playful phase in the use of fast-evolving artificial intelligence, or AI, technologies. But it’s a phase fraught with potential for producing threatening upheavals in social cohesion that could impact culture, government, geopolitics, economics and life in general, writes Brad Allenby in a recent commentary published in German in a newspaper based in Switzerland. Allenby, a professor of ethics and engineering in ASU’s Lincoln Center of Applied Ethics and teacher in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, describes generative AI as being like a glass cage that offers a kind of all-encompassing view of the world around us, but at the same time can still entrap us.