As AI restructures the world around us, we are only beginning to realise how human psychology makes us too stupid to meet the challenge.

The Middle East has been the epicentre of global tensions since literally year zero. While those living there have for centuries borne the brunt of actual violence, by a matter of degree, almost every single day – the sparks that intermittently ignite this simmering powder keg to explode, as it has this week, inevitably pulls the world into its fray. With such unspeakable horrors happening on the ground as I write these very words it would seem a misuse of energy and attentio