AI Needs You is a fascinating read, though not necessarily for the reasons you might expect – what the title suggests isn’t quite what you actually get. That isn’t to say this is a bad book – quite the contrary, it’s a detailed and informative guide to the history of how the internet was set up, from the earliest days of computing in the 1950s to today’s conundrums. The historical theme-setting compares the arrival of AI to other transformative innovations such as IVF, the space race – the author applauds ‘the Magna Carta of space’ which disallowed territorial claims to the Earth’s atmosphere …