DOES good news always come in threes?

A woman Archbishop for the Church of England after 105 male Archbishops. If we’re Christian or not, it is surely irrefutable that society needs talent irrespective of gender to debate and re-invigorate community, trust and selflessness?

Meanwhile in the U.S. an individual, manipulated by Meta and YouTube as a child, has been awarded $6M.

Thousands of other victims should now be compensated. At least one section of the exploitation empire, our reality, faces the application of guardrails making social media less likely to treat humanity as having value only as a source of profit.

UK democracy has also just had a spring clean with "foreign" Brits being unable to contribute more than £100K a year to political party coffers while crypto currency for party use is also temporarily prevented.

We do not need another vehicle with which the money men can manipulate political puppet.

Mr Farage will of course be incensed, perhaps because one of his 12 "outside" jobs is as "ambassador" for a crypto company.

These "minor" successes provide a positive pause before we face what AI is about to do to humanity.

There is an oft repeated list of the helpful aspects of the AI tsunami, from miraculous progress in sciences to rapid understanding of illness and new medicines.

The emotional side of care work will be covered by a permanently smiling robot, the same "beast" doubling as a pet, so dog-walking becomes a thing of the past. And medical consultation, psychiatry, counselling and seeing your priest - all on screen.

With jobs decimated we will be forced to establish a universal basic income: just enough for people to live on. Back to the days of the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor?

This is not doom-scrolling. "It could never happen here" is a useless panacea since so few of us fully grasp what "it" entails.

Perhaps the only break against to unfathomable change will be if Trump destabilises so much of the world economy that we have a banking crisis of such proportions that he will have to turn his new gold-emblazoned White House ballroom into a bomb shelter in which to hide from his own people.

Jeremy Hall

Crockernwell