Over the past few years, rapid advances have created a new type of Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI. Generative AI produces novel text, images, music, and soHware by analyzing enormous collections of digitized material. Generative AI will change the way we live, work, play, express ourselves, persuade each other, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle the social order, and strain both private and public institutions. This talk will explain how this new technology works and how it will impact human society