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

It is the best of times! It is the worst of times! Charles Dickens didn’t do headlines, but if he did, the current debates about AI (Artificial Intelligence) in our lives and culture would be made for

Millions of people now have AI companions, offering everything from emotional support to NSFW (“not safe for work”) chat. And many are finding that these virtual relationships are an improvement on the real thing.

AI is now reaching into every corner of our lives. We can –and must–very carefully choose how we engage with it

It’s unwise to take tech billionaires’ predictions about the future at face value. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s promises, very few of us have moved our work and social lives to the Metaverse. Aside from

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is the fastest growing company in the history of capitalism. In 2022 Sam Altman, the wonderkid CEO of OpenAI, described prospects for AI bluntly: “The good case is