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The Chatbot and the Bureaucrat

Will AI end humanity or save it? It may be more mundane than that, writes James Bloodworth

ILLUSTRATION: ELLICE WEAVER

There is a particular kind of dread attached to the brown envelope. You can recognise the logo before you have read a word: HMRC. The local council. A debt collection agency.

Perhaps these days it is more likely to be an email from your landlord or letting agent.

John Berger at 100

Peter Jukes celebrates the centenary of the birth of John Berger – one of the figures who inspires Byline Times’ analysis on the ideas we think with
Peter Jukes