Everyone in Britain seems to be struggling to find the time to keep up with AI – and that includes the boss of Google.

Kate Alessi, the company’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, carves out three hour-long slots in her diary every week to experiment with her company’s artificial intelligence tools.

She is one of only a few female executives to have reached the top of Big Tech, which remains very much a man’s world.

Google has discovered mid-life women in Britain face a fresh hazard at work. As if their lives were not already difficult enough, they are now at risk of being left in the slow lane by a new breed of young, male AI ‘super users.’

These individuals are mastering the technology to grab promotions and pay rises, while fifty-something female colleagues lag behind.