Chatbots could be the future of brand communication – but only if people actually want to talk to them. To stop digital assistants from being too robotic, brands and publishers are hiring comedic writers and actors to give them a sense of character and make them sound more human.

Web giants such as Facebook and Google have woven themselves into billions of lives, but countless controversies over the years have a growing number of users questioning if they can trust these companies. How are data breaches and fake news changing people’s relationships with big tech?

As AI works its way into more parts of everyday life, the biases they exhibit are coming under closer scrutiny. Canvas8 spoke to Robert Elliott Smith, an AI expert and senior research fellow at UCL, to find out how developing diverse artificial intelligence can help businesses and society alike.

Call it bashfulness or just good old British reserve, we’re known the world over as the nation least likely to talk about things. Whether it’s sex, health or money, we keep it all to ourselves, but could the potential of AI-based innovations help us open up and shed our shame?