Keir Starmer announces new rules to tackle online risks for under-16s. But turning an educational issue into a ban risks having the opposite effect: more children going underground, families being relieved of responsibility, and Big Tech feeling less obliged to make their platforms safe

The pattern is always the same: a company develops its own artificial intelligence and is eager to push it forward, at the risk of overdoing it and spoiling the user experience. Perhaps Siri AI will follow the same path as Copilot: it will take off, cause some disruption, then scale back. It will be somewhat inconvenient for a while. But then it will blow over

The great promise of technology is that, eventually, it will do the work for us, freeing up all our time. And in the end, there will be nothing left to free ourselves from, except, perhaps, ourselves