Living with AI

How artificial intelligence is reshaping our most human experiences

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Perspective Media
July 27, 2025

THIS WEEK’S DEEP DIVE
My AI shrink and me
BY SOPHIE HEAWOOD

Sophie Heawood discovers that a surprising number of Brits are now turning to AI instead of human therapists, and decides to test ChatGPT as her own digital counsellor. What starts as skepticism about robot therapy evolves into genuine moments of insight and connection, especially when she discovers AI can channel beloved fictional characters to reach both herself and her anxious teenager daughter.

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First question for Dr AI: am I a bad parent?

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AI: A wake-up call

Khaled Bazzi confronts the reality of AI tools that can replicate in minutes what took him decades to master, from logo design to marketing copy. Tracing his journey from sci-fi optimist to keen adapter, he explores how the creative industries stand at a crossroads between embracing AI as collaborator or watching it dominate the very work that once defined human creativity.

www.perspectivemedia.com/ai-a-wake-up-call

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If an AI can design a logo in seconds, is the value in the output, or in the human process behind it?

Past futures

Mic Wright examines why we're drawn to dystopian visions when measuring our present against science fiction's predictions, from Orwell's surveillance state to Blade Runner's 2019. But as AI reshapes our world, he argues for embracing the optimistic futures imagined by writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Iain M. Banks, not as blueprints, but as inspiration for the cooperative, adaptable species we've always been.

www.perspectivemedia.com/past-futures

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We live in a big science fiction novel we are all writing together

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