Licence to Compute: How AI Is Shaking Up Your Money Some inventions make life a bit more convenient, others, in the words of Michael Caine “blow the bloody doors off”. Artificial Intelligence is the second kind. It’s the kind of technology that rewrites the rules, rattles industries and whose impact could rival the printing press, the Industrial Revolution and even the birth of the Internet, for the seismic shifts that it might create in how we live, who holds power and how society works.