“The huge majority do not understand the historical significance of the moment. I wonder am I mistaken or not?” — Vladimir Vernadskii, diary entry, July 12, 1940 “They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.” — H.G. Wells, The World Set Free, 1914 One of the longest running jokes about AI is that it is always only twenty years away. Its advocates swear that it will be a game-changer, that it will alter the world as we know it and in ways that we c

Christopher Wylie and Shahmir Sanni are two rather remarkable whistleblowers. One is a gay coder with a Canadian accent rocking a pink hairdo, the other is a muslim who was last week outed as gay by 10 Downing Street. Both of them voted Leave and yet here they are, outside Parliament on a rainy Thursday afternoon, talking to a crowd of lefties about why they came out. "Oh that was a bad choice of words" Shahmir coyly reprimands himself. Shahmir, who had worked on the BeLeave