One beautiful thing – March 20, 2014

The shadow cast by a detailed carving on a huge Newspaper House door.

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In this, the first Sensible Woman post of 2026, I take my experience as the mother of a gamer and bring you a parent’s guide to AI.

At the start of 2025, our family had no idea what was in store for us…

We are almost done with 2025. Time to reflect on a year of generative AI and the emerging dangers – but also to think about what to do about that.

Can a city be said to have a colour? In one sense, not at all. And yet, you can have a mental image, an impression, a feeling about a place.

The advent of a host of chatty bots has made clearer to us the outlines of the world we now live in. And the picture is not pretty.