With the launch of Chat GPT in November 2022, the world began to change in ways that are not yet totally definable. At first, Chat GPT seemed like little more than a mechanism for producing inaccurate essays on almost any subject, but it galvanised Big Tech. Google, for one, told hundreds of coders to stop what they were doing and start working on artificial intelligence. AI is now daily in the news. Does it signal the end of human dominance or is it our species’ supreme triumph, an invention that can lead us into a better future? The jury is still out.

AI Morality consists of twenty academic essays examining the different issues at stake – defence, health, law, politics and governance, work and play and so on. It is a very good, if uneven, read. It shows that creating an intelligent machine as competent as – or more competent than – humans subverts almost every assumption we currently make about ourselves and the future.

‘It is no longer unthinkable’, writes Muriel Leuenberger, ‘that AI might come to know you better than you know yourself.’ Or it might just throw you out of work. It ‘is not just that the labour market might be hollowed out, leaving some workers without work or with a different