Brand new illustrated series to accompany a feature, in association with Professor Hannah Fry’s BBC Documentary “AI Confidential”, on the times when AI got it drastically wrong for BBC Science Focus.

These illustrations by Ollie Hirst examine our developing relationship & trust with machine learning when we lean on algorithms to navigate life challenges as digital therapists for mental health, simulating the dead to cope with severe grief, or even acting as a life-long lover… often to not great effect.