“Polycrisis” is the word that sums up best the last three years, in which the global Covid-19pandemic has been closely followed by the return of war in Europe and renewed tensionsin the Middle East, against a backdrop of increasingly extreme weather events as climatechange takes hold. In the last year, yet another source of uncertainty has demandedattention: rapid development in artificial intelligence (AI), with the emergenceof generative AI and ChatGPT in particular.