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Readers respond to Larry Elliott’s article about the impact of artificial intelligence on the workplaceLike runaway climate change, the rapid development of self-learning artificial intelligence is an unprecedented existential threat to humanity, where past experience will be no guide to our future prospects (AI will end the west’s weak productivity and low growth. But who exactly will benefit?, 7 April). This is especially true when AI links to either super- or quantum-computing pow

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They may be cheaper and less trouble, but they’ll never have the gravitas, the engagement or the raised eyebrow of reporters like me“The news is … there is no news.” With those words, outside St Mary’s Hospital in London awaiting the birth of Prince George in July 2013, my reporting for the BBC went viral on the internet. My somewhat testy response to standing in the street with nothing to say had struck a chord with many. Not for what I was saying but the way I wa