AI has the potential to be the next greatest tool. I can be certain nearly every <i>cookie cutter</i> type job in years to come, maybe a couple of decades, if not sooner, will see AI take over most of those duties, and in support, possibly do a better job if all the replies are already known.<p>I don't personally use it or have a need at the moment, but await the day it's matured enough I can set it on an old scanned pdf, and it'll work out how to code a new pdf with the same type font, either by discovery or create a new font, typeset the same position, if of duplicator (ditto machine) nature, work out any miss formed letters ... also clean up any images within, such it is as good as if not better than what was originally scanned if it were printed, and greatly reduce my disc space required to store my collection of pdfs.<p>Sadly I already know that won't become the norm for the average user, unless for some weird instance, the AI is totally under their own control - and that situation would be doubtful due to potential misuse.<p>That's would be an example of well placed concern ... unseen misuse slowly addressed.<p>Then there will be the monetisation and I imagine it'll creep in just like search engines, start, get better, become great and then ... fuck everyone over so those that really need a good search, pay to try others. (Sadly for any potential new web crawlers, in that time span from the end of 90s where it was open to all, there's no simple crawling all the web any more ... )<p>The next I see as an issue will be early adopters trying to wrangle a customer base around some inappropriate use of it. New tech is nice and some people are scared of things which haven't been well tested, but sometimes that fear is well founded - I only have to think back to voice identification technology which was really interesting in those times, but I know of at least one govt organisation that inflicted it on a wide user base despite being told it wasn't that secure - assuming most would be hackers would not have large enough systems to mimic a voice on the fly, isn't a good start IMO.