Australia has explored how its public servants are using Microsoft’s AI Copilot with efficiency gains observed, but barriers to adoption also identified. America goes to the polls next week in an election where the tech titans have made their presence felt like never before.

Whether and how we use that power is up to us, but we mightn’t have it for long. The more the new class of billionaires and trillionaires becomes entrenched, the more it will be able to use the political system to protect their interests rather than those of mere mortals.