This month’s journal looks at a topic that has been front and centre of attention wherever you look these days. Will artificial intelligence (AI) take our jobs? Will it run amok and lead to the extinction of the human race? A healthy degree of scepticism is needed with regard to some of the more speculative notions feeding the hype surrounding AI. It is worth bearing in mind that this is a tool that is already proving to be beneficial in many areas of our lives. As far as our profession is concerned, it has already led to efficiency gains by automating many of the administrative aspects of our function.