Is Artificial Intelligence taking over our lives?

https://www.theindiansun.com.au/2026/07/07/is-artificial-intelligence-taking-over-our-lives/

Publish Date: 2026-07-06 23:00:00

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For most of history, technological revolutions have announced themselves dramatically. Euphemism for disruptive. They have been transformative and epochal. Steam engines heralded the Industrial Revolution. Electricity lit up cities and forced our circadian rhythms to adapt. The internet connected continents and the world became flat according to Thomas Friedman, a borderless world according to Kenichi Ohmae and a global village according to Marshal McLuhan. Smartphones brought about a tectonic shift and changed the way how billions lived almost overnight.

Artificial Intelligence has been different. The medical fraternity would call its approach “Non-Invasive!” It did not arrive with fanfare. There was no single “AI Day” when humanity woke up to discover intelligent machines. Instead, AI quietly slipped into our lives, one recommendation, one navigation route, one spam filter, one voice assistant at a time. Before most people realized it, AI had become woven into the fabric of everyday existence and enriched it by the sheer brilliance of the tapestry.

Today, AI writes emails, diagnoses diseases, drives cars, creates music, detects fraud, predicts weather, translates languages, and increasingly acts as an intellectual companion. It has become perhaps the most influential technology since electricity, yet its greatest achievement has been its invisibility.

This is the story of how AI slowly entered mainstream life and where it might take humanity next.

It may appear that AI is often perceived as a recent invention but it has gone through an evolutionary cycle of its own and its roots go back centuries. Myths imagined mechanical servants endowed with intelligence. Philosophers wondered if human thought itself could be reduced to a set of rules. The industrial revolution brought in machines that amplified physical labour. Likewise, the digital revolution created machines that amplified…

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