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Everyone uses Wikipedia, but should it really be affecting what happens in court?Remember when loads of academics were confidently predicting that technology, from robots to AI, was about to destroy all our jobs? They were wrong. We went into Covid with record employment before the pandemic, not the robots, knocked a chunk of people out of the workforce.In fact, technology has done something almost worse: giving academics a whole new job producing studies showing how easily technology affects us

The new chatbot is generating a lot of hype, but we would do well to consider its human and environmental costSometimes, those who would forget history are condemned to repeat it. For those of us with long memories, the current fuss – nay hysteria – surrounding ChatGPT (and “generative AI” generally) rings a bell.We have been here before: in January 1996, to be precise. That was the moment when Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at MIT, unveiled Eliza, which would ha