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Love is far from an anti-intellectual response. Love demands every resource we can muster – our creativity, our imagination, our compassion, as well as our smart, shiny, thinking self. Love is the totality. No one, at the end of life, regrets love.

The technology to change the world for the better is the technology that is in place right now. It’s the best of times and the worst of times. Dystopia or Utopia? Nothing could be simpler. Nothing could be harder.

Big Tech hasn’t created, isn’t interested in creating, a ‘sharing’ economy. That’s just marketing. We don’t live in a sharing economy. We live in the most unequal, socially divided work-and-reward economy the world has ever seen.

Humans are motivated by community. We are interested in helping others. We aren’t just faking it – not just playing for ‘likes’. Compassion is real.

One click on a cashmere sweater and forget Googling the theory of relativity – Einstein will be wearing this season’s colours as you scroll down the ads that demolish concentration and serious thought.

Exceptional women, like exceptional men, lead the world forward – but if we get caught up in the exceptionalism narrative, we are in danger of dragging an out-of-date story into a future waiting to be told.

Human animals can and do change our stories. Tech and AI is part of that changing story – but unless we can change the fixed ideas in our heads, then tech and AI could easily become the dystopian disaster so many of us fear.

We are already hybrids. We always were. We are contemplatives and doers. We imagine and we build. We get our hands dirty, yet we rise above it all, star-dreamers and shit-shovellers. Creatures of beauty, as well as ugliness and fear. Terrible failure. Impossible success.

Our social systems, our hierarchical obsessions, the increasing concentration of wealth and power among a very few – these things are driving our uncomfortable relationship with AI.