What would our lives look like if we no longer had to work? As a thought experiment, I tried to imagine

‘If the issue of subsistence was able to be sorted, the big questions would be more philosophical, rather than economic,’ Brigid Delaney writes. ‘What would we do with ourselves? How would we find meaning?’ Photograph: Mark Garlick/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF

For a long time humanity has dreamed about a life free of toil, spent largely in leisure, learning and pleasure.

Now that AI has arrived, what if it was the thing that finally delivers us into a post-work future?