My views on sinister AI, clever AI and a problem for witches on broomsticks – Peter Rhodes
A reader sends me a 40-year-old copy of Private Eye which reported that in March 1984 councillors in Exeter upheld a petition from a woman who claimed that if two houses were built next to hers they would interfere with her flight path to Dartmoor. “I ask for the utmost consideration,” she said, “because I am a member of a minority group.” A witch, to be precise.