Mythos Worries, Employment Angst, Why Warm Bots May Be Lying To You

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This week we covered a lot of ground: Faculty's $1 billion acquisition by Accenture, a wave of improving CFO sentiment on AI productivity, the Law Society demanding clearer government guidance on AI in legal practice, Ofcom confronting Elon Musk's XAI over deeply troubling child safety failures, and Whitehall's appointment of a first-ever chief AI officer alongside HMRC's algorithmic tax enforcement push. Our take throughout: Britain's AI transformation is already underway, but governance, accountability, and education are struggling to keep pace — and the stakes for getting that wrong are rising fast.

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