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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

Nasser Hussain’s cricketing truth-bomb fights back against march of AI robots

Illustration of a robot's hand crushing a pencil.
It is no great secret that the machine age is fully upon us. Illustration: Gary Neill/The Guardian

I believe the robots are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside – let the robots’ laughter remind us how we used to be. The Onion, there, prescient as ever, 25 years on.

May I also say at this point that in a time of industrial-scale sporting bullshit telling the truth is, more than ever, a revolutionary act, all the more so when it involves standing in front of a camera in a rumpled ice-blue blazer, eyes blazing with righteous carved wooden woodpecker fury.

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