Will Labour grasp the opportunities of new technology?
As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, Keir Starmer must strike a balance between innovation and regulation.
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OpenAI has executed its turbulent priests
Sam Altman’s dramatic firing and rehiring has shown who is really in control of ChatGPT.
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Does AI know you better than you know yourself?
As stretched mental health services turn to tech solutions, Silicon Valley is cashing in – with sometimes alarming consequences.
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Rishi Sunak’s softball interview with Elon Musk was embarrassing to watch
The Prime Minister acted almost as if he was interviewing for a job with the billionaire.
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Why are men so scared of robots?
Sunak and Musk have waited their whole lives to square up against a threat to humanity like AI.
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Voters don’t share Rishi Sunak’s easy-going approach to AI
Their caution is better reflected in Labour’s preference for regulation.
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The Research Brief: What the AI summit should be focusing on
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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How AI is speeding up diagnosis
Technology is transforming the speed at which diseases are detected. But what are the risks of rapid innovation?
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Can AI therapy solve the mental health crisis?
Stretched mental health services are turning to tech solutions, but will a chatbot ever master the human mind?
Keep your algorithms away from our love lives
Dating apps need to be answerable to the law.
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Trapped in the AI echo chamber
Mustafa Suleyman and his fellow artificial intelligence cheerleaders now say their inventions could destroy us. Should we believe them?
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Max Bennett’s Q&A: “When we follow advice, we adopt the wants of others”
The AI entrepreneur on Jim Carrey, Game of Thrones and his disdain for self-congratulatory LinkedIn posts.
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Who owns your face?
How the shadowy start-up Clearview sold the power of facial recognition to corporations and states across the globe.
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The AI that solved climate change
The Prime Minister thought he had found the key to world survival – or was he just a middle-aged man…
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Can our sluggish education system survive in a fast-changing world?
The traditional university course is poorly suited for our future.
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Even a mod rally couldn’t lift my AI-induced downer
When a friend told ChatGPT to write an article in my style, I first found it mildly amusing – then…
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The Policy Ask with Carl Miller: “I’ve had conspiracy theorists turning up at the office”
The cofounder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media on disinformation, online safety and protecting the BBC.
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Masayoshi Son’s inventor complex
With the public listing of the British chips company Arm, the SoftBank CEO is still set on transforming the world…
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David Runciman’s armchair politics
In the recycled wisdom of his new book The Handover, the supremacy of the state is unquestioned and its inequities…
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The Policy Ask with Kriti Sharma: “AI fear-mongering pains me”
The founder of AI For Good on technology’s capacity to solve social problems, building robots as a child, and digitising…
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