A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.” The characters in Philip K.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s push to foster medical technology champions to rival US groups such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink is ...

To be sure, AI can simulate empathy. It can generate phrases that sound reassuring. It can be trained on millions of examples of “supportive language.” But simulation is not the same as soul. A ...