Twentysomethings like me were quick to embrace the technology that could write a university essay in seconds, and have outsourced our lives to it – but we are only now discovering its faults and what it might be doing to us, says Esme Gordon Craig I was at university when I first became aware of ChatGPT . It was 2022, and I was in the pub with a friend who had just finished her essay. I asked how it went, and with a proud smile she pulled out her phone and with it presented her new AI assistant