People have always worried greatly about the consequences of technological change. Cultural technologies such as fire, writing, the printing press, railways, nuclear weapons, the internet and social media have always brought in their wake a host of changes - some positive, some negative, and most quite unpredictable. What are the risks and opportunities that AI devices like ChatGPT pose? Are we at the brink of a true paradigm shift? And what can we learn from the past? Will AI force us to up our game as humans, and refocus on our uniquely human skillsets once again?