With college graduates jeering mentions of artificial intelligence at commencement speeches, and voices as disparate as the Pope and technology giant Anthropic warning of the risks of unmitigated AI development, public sentiment toward the technology has sobered considerably since its early euphoria. Yet despite mounting public backlash, global AI usage has surged to record highs. OpenAI's ChatGPT reached one billion monthly app users, or MAUs, in May, according to recent estimates from market