As AI madness encroaches, we need human connection more than ever. But we’ll have to fight for it

Elon Musk, the trillionaire owner of social media platform X, has mooted making an ‘AI Odyssey’. Van Badham writes that as AI regulation is debated, we should ‘take a wild, political stand for authentic preference over forced consumption’. Photograph: Anton Dos Ventos/Alamy

I have a cherished memory of a family trip to the movies. In the Australian tradition, we bought choc-top ice-creams, chattered through pre-show trailers and a hush fell on the full house as the movie started.

It was Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, on film, only a couple of weeks ago, months after its release.