Can chatbots encourage people to be nicer to each other?

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AI can be brilliant when put to proper use, but it also has some major downsides

Last summer, we prompted eight AI platforms to magic up a range of digital images (see issue 368, p78). This time we’ve returned to the subject with a focus on more general tasks, covering business wr

It’s safe to say our audience across X, Discord and Facebook were split when we asked whether they would like a robot helper. Let’s start with the naysayers. “By all means, if you want to forgo the la

LAST SUMMER, LANCE JOHNSON WOKE up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain in his lower right side. He initially blamed it on the pizza and ice cream he had enjoyed the night before. But fiv

It’s been a while since the furore over the December 2025 release of the so-called Epstein Files, or at least some of them. And then only some of some of them. Yes, I’m talking about the great redacti