Yes, used to work somewhere, where they let users write their own queries. Needless to say it could sometimes bring the production database to a standstill, but that was back in the days of Oracle 5.

Do you care because of performance, or some other reason?

Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.

This is the bit on seizing jewellery. Perhaps shave their heads as well, could get good money for all that hair? But again, this is likely to create lots of bureaucracy yet have little real-world effect because it is so hard to do in practice.

Even if the proposals are just red meat for Sun readers that will disappear, it's not OK. It's the gov telling everyone that state mugging of new arrivals is a policy that it's acceptable for reasonable mainstream people to consider - normalising Reform-type policies and shifting the Overton Window.