They Do Not Know What's Coming

If you’re like me, you saw this graphic above at least 10 times over the past few days.

Of course it makes sense that large swaths of the global population do not and indeed cannot access AI models — over 2 billion people globally still live entirely without internet. And in many regions with internet access, the infrastructure is insufficient to support AI usage. Even in high-income countries, only one quarter of the population uses AI according to the World Bank. This in itself is not particularly interesting.

But if you’re, like me, an avid user of frontier AI models, you saw the graphic and probably thought:

Very few people have even the slightest clue of what’s happening… and what’s still to come.