He has lifted the lid on Jason Arday’s cauldron, and petitions are circulating online calling for him to be sacked. Equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are based on opposing logics. After forty years of pretending to have forgotten it, he has reminded us of it.

Meta is committed to making the basic versions of its AI agents free of charge, and to selling advanced features through a ‘dynamic auction mechanism’. ‘Hoping that an absolute power will look after the good of humanity has never led to reliable results,’ writes Mr Facebook in ‘The future is for everyone’