When Block product designer Cynthia Chen first dreamed up the idea of an app that could catalogue dogs spotted in the wild, she shelved it. "The hurdle was so big, so I never did anything," she said.

Since AI chatbots such as ChatGPT burst onto the scene, there has been a small amount of panic about AI taking all of our jobs. While there are still plenty of things that AI chatbots can't yet do, ...