There is a moment, just before the storm breaks, when the air goes still. So still it feels unnatural. That's where we are now. On the edge of something vast, thrilling, and utterly unknowable. Artificial Intelligence now weaves itself, almost imperceptibly, into the fabric of our routines. It's drafting memos, diagnosing diseases, predicting criminal behaviour, writing legal opinions, and doing it all with a kind of eerie competence. But the winds are changing. The question is no longer what AI can do. It's what it might decide to do next.

In The Boys WhatsApp group, my friend Uzair Butt, ever the technical realist, pushed back on my unease about AI reaching the point of self-reasoning. He argued that AI remains devoid of understanding. What it offers is interpolation over insight, predi

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