“Reputations are going to be staked on how ‘the computer’ goes about making decisions”

We live lonely lives here sometimes. The type of critic who sees patterns in everything loves to tell me that I’m in the pockets of PC Pro advertisers, and that we all toe the party line – most recently over systems such as the Raspberry Pi 400 or anti-Zoomness. All I can do is shake my head and say it simply can’t work that way. Deadlines rule, okay? When you see me and Jon Honeyball talking about NAS firmware in the same month, it’s because the issue has hit both of us in the real world over that period.

What’s this about? I wanted to soften you up for a bit of self-regard, really. I want you to go through your back issues and find Nicole Kobie’s Futures piece about the AI screw-up database, that’s why (or turn to issue 319, p126 – Ed). Those of an obsessive turn can go look up my exploration of the notion of AI bias (see issue 299, p104). And, just to prove my point about coincidental coverage