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The conversation about AI safety has moved from research labs and philosophy seminars into boardrooms, parliaments, and dinner-table arguments. What was once a relatively contained technical debate about alignment and control has become entangled with industrial policy, national security, and great-power competition.

For more than two decades, Google has been the front door to the web. If a business wanted to be found, it optimised for Google. If a publisher wanted readers, it courted Google. If a student wanted sources, a consultant wanted leads, or a founder wanted customers, the journey usually began with a search box and a list of blue links. Google did not merely organise the web; it shaped the economics of attention, the architecture of websites, and the language of digital marketing itself

Artificial general intelligence has long occupied an ambiguous territory between scientific objective, technological aspiration and philosophical speculation. For decades, the idea of a machine possessing sufficiently broad intellectual capabilities to perform a substantial proportion of human cognitive work seemed permanently distant

On 26 August 2026, the long-running public and regulatory debate over social media’s effects on young people reached a pivotal moment. After years of public concern, investigative reporting, whistleblower disclosures and legislative hearings, a court accepted a proposed settlement requiring Meta - the parent company of Facebook and Instagram - to agree to remedies and commitments valued at $16.68 billion

The recent road accidents in the Republic of Ireland and in England, where major fatalities occurred involving teenagers is a wake-up call. A consistent warning emerges: the digital systems now shaping childhood are not neutral tools, but commercial environments designed to capture attention, extract data and normalise surveillance. Reclaiming childhood requires neither panic nor technophobia, but a public commitment to protect developing minds, rebuild trusted relationships and hold powerful companies to account