If it’s only AI that’s keeping you up at night, maybe you’re doing OK

Poverty is far pressing for many people, writes Lynsey Hanley. Plus letters from Martin Pitt and Michael Bulley Reading Alexander Hurst’s column on the frictionless experience of life promised - or threatened - by AI algorithms, I was struck by how little I recognised the picture he painted of daily experience being stripped of the friction necessary to furnish it with meaning ( To be human is to live with friction. That’s something AI boosters will never understand, 23 April