Imagine this courtroom scenario:   Judge:   “Who committed the fraud?” Counsel:   “The algorithm, Your Honour.” Judge:   “And where is the defendant?” Counsel:   “A server farm in Texas.”   Silence arrives. Confusion follows. The court adjourns for a technical explanation no one fully understands.   It sounds absurd. Yet this scenario captures one of the most pressing governance challenges of the digital age:   If artificial intelligence causes harm — who is responsible?   As AI systems...

Context The business is a group of talent agencies in the UK.   Until recently, one of my team members, Katie, spent 30 minutes reviewing and reformatting a candidate’s CV before it was ready for client submission.   It was careful work. Necessary work. Entirely manual.   Now we have AI and it takes two minutes.   Katie was six years old when one of our subsidiaries first opened its doors. More than thirty years later (forgive me, Katie), she leads a business that has survived recessions,...

For this article, I wanted to write from the perspective of a parent and caregiver, reflecting on what AI designs are emerging for families with young children and how this technology is beginning to support their needs.   I didn’t expect to be this impressed by an AI toy. Indeed, I was initially rather sceptical about its reliability and secretly timed how many seconds it would take before my 7-year-old got bored and it became a very expensive dust magnet. However, my “let’s give everything...