We are tearing up creative rights to feed a flawed Whitehall obsession with AI

There's no reason you should have ever heard of Simon Squibb, the "chief purpose officer of the Purposeful Project". Mr Squibb, who describes himself as an "Elon Musk wanna-be" in his Twitter profile, is one of those tirelessly energetic mid-life influencers who proliferate on the petri dish of LinkedIn. Displaying the sort of enthusiasm that Matt Hancock reserves for a Bushtucker Challenge, Mr Squibb is on a mission. "I want to fix the education system", he says. This fix entails removing something that many of us consider quite an important part of the education system: the learning part.