We Are the Algorithm

Every second, the world’s machines make a billion decisions no human will review. Ian Khan goes to the front line of four fights happening at once: a physicist trying to see inside an alien intelligence we grew rather than built, a builder racing to power data centres the size of city blocks, a hacker turned guardian defending encryption against the quantum threat, and a neuroscience lab where a brain-computer interface helped a child who could not move. Four fights, one question: what are we becoming?