For the last year, I've been involved in testing Microsoft's new AI programme. It can't spot a spoof Microsoft email & insisted that I'd written a non-existent book in 2021. Unnervingly, Microsoft openly markets it as a way to save time on our children.

Thanks but no thanks, Microsoft – I don’t need your AI tool to let my children know I love them

If you could hand over control of your life to a technology which can do most of what you can do — but better than you — would you do it? Increasingly, this isn’t science fiction, but will be a centra...

AI will do some truly amazing things. But it could mean outsourcing our critical faculties to manipulatable machines whose workings we don't undertand. Microsoft's AI tool told me it didn't like this column and I ignored that. Over time, we're less likely to reject such advice.