Seth Miller

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Subscribe to our newsletter AI became a larger part of our ordinary lives quickly. We already had AI assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri. And in March, Amazon added a health assistant to its website that can read your medical records and book your appointments. In May, Schwab gave retail clients a tool that summarizes why their portfolio moved. The technology turns up in the search bar and the banking app whether you asked for it or not.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images You can drive through a comfortable neighborhood and have no idea which families own their lives and which ones are financially stretched. The house looks the same either way. So do the cars in the driveway and the beach photos from spring break. But while one family might own all of it outright, the next could be borrowing against next year to keep pace.