When AI knows you better than you know yourself

AI systems can detect your patterns across time, synthesise the data you provide it and present a distilled portrait of who you are which may feel clearer than your own recollection but we can’t let AI define who we are.

AI anxiety

Nobody asked for a world in which human creativity is stolen wholesale to be replaced with auto-generated slop, the job market is decimated and a handful of tech barons own the whole planet, but that’s the future we have and we’re right to be anxious about it.

Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with

Every generation faces its own version of the genie in the bottle. For ours, it’s artificial intimacy. Do we let our children form bonds with machines designed to mimic emotion? Or do we help them engage in the messy, human relationships that teach empathy, patience and love?

Thank you, modern medicine

Modern medicine often gets a bad rap, with people preferring to complain about its cost or bureaucracy, or put their faith in unproven ‘alternative’ treatments, but we should all take a moment to appreciate the massive contribution it has made to improving – and extending – our lives.

Balancing your ‘hope budget’

Maintaining hope in the face of endless bad news isn’t about ignoring reality – it’s about facing it strategically and staying engaged without succumbing to apathy or drowning in despair.