Nicholas Lising-White is a behavioural analyst at Canvas8. With a degree in human geography from UCL, he is interested in the impact of differing cultural conditions on human behaviour. Outside of work, he can be found meandering between cafes on his bike, testing his culinary skills, and intermittently pottering around a rugby pitch.

The mainstreaming of AI is setting a new precedent for how people relate to non-human sources of intelligence. While automation on a consumer level has typically focused on specific tasks like replying to emails or budgeting, it’s now swiftly expanding to a more dynamic range of applications.

Life on Autopilot

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Shopping

Personal tech

Apps and software

Google has revealed Project Mariner, an AI agent that can navigate websites or fill shopping carts for its users. Google is building trust in this new tool, which is still in its early stages of development, by ensuring that people can easily track the decisions it makes on their behalf.