Five of the best face swap apps

MSQRD, Face Swap Live, Snapchat and other apps fuelling the latest social craze - including one invented by Yahoo back in 2013

Will 2016 go down in history as the year we failed to heed the warning about artificial intelligence overthrowing humanity one stone at a time, because we were distracted by swapping faces with our friends, our pets or nearby breasts?

Perhaps. Face-swapping apps aren't actually new - several have been around since 2013 - but they have become this year's mobile craze, in a lineage that includes Draw Something, Dubsmash, Flappy Bird, FatBooth and (in the earliest days of Apple's App Store) virtual pint-drinking and lightsaber apps.