An AI agent for all? Try using your brain, Mark Zuckerberg

Your article (Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model, 10 August) quotes Mark Zuckerberg as saying: “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses.” He is wasting his time, as we already have one – it’s called “your brain”.Peter WallisNorth Luffenham, Rutland

I agree wholeheartedly with 16-year-old Emad Rehman’s letter (12 August) about why it’s wrong to label an 11-year-old as a “likely future Neet” – and bearing in mind the elegant manner in which his point was made, I think you should offer him a position at the Guardian.Martin BermanNewton Mearns, East Renfrewshire

What’s the betting that Emad Rehman will not be a future Neet?Michael FullerAmpthill, Bedfordshire

I grieve for the farmers who, like so many others, are suffering from our failure to properly address the climate crisis over recent years (Country diary, 13 August). One area where change is key is in our diets. We need to be eating foods that can be grown here in the UK in the new climatic conditions we now face. Judith Russenberger London

The plants now thriving in my garden are bindweed and brambles. Granted they’re not what most people want, me included, but they are native plants enjoying the hot, dry weather (Letters, 11 August).Sue Christian Trefonen, Shropshire

How to live well – and die happy (The experts, 13 August)? My answer: hope the assisted dying bill has passed in time.Jennifer JenkinsLondon