Large-scale AI systems consume enormous amounts of energy. Yet the material details of those costs remain vague in the social imagination.

Scientist John Wyatt gives 10 answers to frequently asked questions about the Covid-19 vaccines.

We need a deeper understanding which transcends the distorted reflections of ourselves that we find in our own technology.

As technologically simulated relationships become ever more realistic and superficially convincing, we must be aware of the risk that the simulacrum will exert a seductive appeal to our hearts.

Should we teach our children to be polite to Alexa, to say please and thank you, to respect its ‘virtual’ feelings? Or is it of no significance if children abuse, tease and bully a simulated slave-person?

Will the promotion of ‘relationships’ with machines contribute to societal wellbeing and human flourishing, or provide new opportunities for manipulation and deception of the vulnerable?