The Brooks Brothers brand may evoke images of older executives in leather desk chairs, but the company is betting on something future-facing to transform its business – artificial intelligence. How can the tech ensure shoppers get the goods they want, where they want them, and at the right price?

HBO has launched a recommendation tool based on the opinions of real people. While Netflix viewers are accustomed to automated suggestions being thrown their way, HBO is undermining the authority of algorithms in favor of a less predictable but more satisfying solution.

Over 70% of people fear AI in some way, with 24% worried it will take over the world. Canvas8 spoke to Tom Chatfield, author of Critical Thinking, to find out how we can create AI that won’t jeopardise our liberty, and to understand how human biases influence machine programming.

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?