Published 2025-01-20
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Abstract
Over the past four years, several events have shaken the world from the relative tranquillity of the post-World War II period. Towards the end of 2019, a pandemic emerged, the likes of which had not been seen since the 1918 flu. In 2022 and 2023, two wars began on Europe's doorstep; and on the last day of November 2022, the news came that Artificial Intelligence (AI) software capable of automatically carrying out tasks that until then were thought to be the privilege of the human intellect (e.g., writing prose, composing poetry and programming computers) was available online.