A few weeks ago, a friend of mine, a retired engineer who once rewired his entire house without asking anyone’s permission, told me he’d been “chatting” to ChatGPT in the evenings. Not about fuse boxes. About his late wife. He said it with a half-embarrassed laugh, the way you’d admit to still owning a Betamax….

For the best part of fifteen years, buying cryptocurrency in Britain has felt like buying a second-hand car from a chap in a lay-by. He seems friendly enough. The paperwork looks official. And the moment your money leaves your hand, you discover nobody, anywhere, is responsible for anything. That is finally changing. Parliament passed regulations…

Every few months the internet decides the machines have finally turned on us. AI escapes the lab. AI goes rogue. AI hacks a company. Usually there is a red-eyed robot picture and a quote from someone who has watched Terminator more recently than they have read a research paper. Except this summer the headlines were…