I spoke to an AI version of my future self – and it might have changed my life

When I was 15, I wrote a letter to my 30-year-old self, which was about as far into the future as I could imagine at that age. I found it when I was clearing out some boxes in my mid-twenties, and although I’d completely forgotten what I’d written, some of it had already partly come true.

I had imagined myself a sports journalist (not far off); that I’d bought a bus and travelled across Europe (it wasn’t a double-decker but I’d driven an old campervan from Ireland to north Africa…