Is the UK government doing enough for the country to become a ‘leader in AI’?

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Will jobs be replaced by AI?

While travelling to work, I read your front page story about chancellor Rachel Reeves spending £2.5billion to make Britain a leader in AI (Metro, Wed).

She is delighting in her dream of creating 100,000 jobs from AI and quantum computing technology but will this make hundreds of thousands of UK employees redundant as their skills are replaced by computing power?

What a dystopian future we have to look forward to.

Michael Lateo, Senior Technician In Electronic And Electrical Engineering, Slough

Is food the way to the heart?

You reported that First Dates host Fred Sirieix is convinced he has proven that food is the way to the heart (Metro, Wed).

Looking back over my own life and then conferring with my circle of friends and colleagues, it struck me that a great many couples initially get together in pubs, clubs or bars, while others bond over coffee and yet more get into conversation around the water cooler at work.

Surely this is proof positive that drinking together is more likely to stimulate the first flickers of romance – hence the popularity of the expression, ‘Love at thirst site.’ Julian Self, Wolverton

Should animals replace humans on bank notes?

A living descendant of Jane Austen says its a ‘real shame’ the literary icon is being removed from £10 notes (Metro, Tue).

Fifth great niece Caroline Jane Knight was speaking after the Bank of England announced Austen, Sir Winston Churchill, JMW Turner and Alan Turing are being replaced on our currency with images of native wildlife.

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Knight makes a good point about falling reading rates among children but the new inclusion of wildlife pictures also points to the climate emergency we now face and it’s good that this is recognised.

Myra Wilson, Sheffield

‘My faith in Labour has returned’

I have been very disappointed in Labour’s performance and had decided not to vote for anyone in the next elections – but in refusing US demands to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has refused to join the US-Israeli war in Iran and my faith in Labour has returned.

They are standing up to the bully that is US president Donald Trump.

Thank God we live in the UK, warts and all.

Elaine, Islington

‘Please, Sir Keir, stay strong and true to your legal roots’

Why on earth anyone thinks Sir Keir should follow or otherwise kowtow to a US president without any moral or ethical compass and without any political mandate to do what he is doing in Iran is beyond me.

Please, Sir Keir, stay strong and true to your legal roots.

Don’t blindly follow others who happily bow to the classroom bully.

Agatha, Surrey

‘Terrorists always think the normal people are terrorists’, says reader

Carmen (MetroTalk, Tue) simply seems to be biased when she says that the children bombed in Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and now Iran will inevitably respond with violence and yet be described as ‘terrorists’ by the US.

Terrorists always think the normal people are terrorists.

The US is bold enough to stand up against evil regimes, whereas other world leaders are spineless – leaders such as our own Sir Keir Starmer.

In evil regimes, the children are always brought up with hatred towards Western civilization, its values and culture – and these wars are not adding anything more.

If someone says that those children are changing because of wars, they are totally wrong.

Some governments want to support evil regimes, not because they see something good in them but to win votes or to please a certain section of the public.

I am glad Trump rises above such a petty outlook and is taking a global view. Raj, Harrow

Are attacks on Iran ‘an Israeli war that Trump was fooled into’

Donald Trump wants Nato (a collective defence organisation) to support him in US attacks against Iran.

This has always been an Israeli war that Trump was fooled into.

Other presidents thought it a stupid idea.

Not our Donald. Mick, West Midlands

Should we get hardware online?

John (MetroTalk, Wed) says tradesman Joffrey Bogemans only has himself to blame after he was injured falling from a faulty ladder he bought online rather than in a hardware store.

Where do the hardware shops source their stock of safety equipment?

Maybe Joffrey was cutting out the middleman.

Jules, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne