AI may well be the future but the Maybot gives it a bad name

Theresa May had woken up desperate to talk about something other than how her government was failing to deal with Brexit.The irony may have been lost on the prime minister but it wasn’t lost on any of the handful of people who had made the mistake of coming to listen to her.Ever since it became clear to the entire country that the prime minister was a series of faultily programmed algorithms who was unable to manage even basic commands, public confidence in AI has plummeted.