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Online learning has become so much a part of everyday life we barely know we’re doing it. But taking something for granted can mean we don’t always think about how we can get the best out of it. New Demos...
The way we consume content has changed almost beyond recognition in the digital age. Vast swathes of the published written word are now viewed on screens that have come to dominate if not our lives then certainly the way we...
Last week the government published its long-awaited White Paper on Online Harms, proposing that an independent regulator be established to ensure that digital technology companies uphold a duty of care to their users and tackle harmful content on their platforms....
https://demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Thirty-years-of-the-WWW.mp4 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, and at Demos, we’re celebrating because our research on the web has been at the cutting edge right from the beginning. In the video, our CASM Senior researcher Josh...
For a think-tank like ours, which has always been about getting people actively involved in the decisions that affect their lives, this is of supreme importance. This question has two parts, really. We need to work out how technology can...
A few days ago, I found myself talking to a woman I had just met, running through a list of facts about her family. The week before, Demos had been challenged by the BBC to find out as much as...
Rodney Brooks, one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers of the last 20 years, has recently written an article pointing out that popular expectations for the rate of progress in AI research are running far ahead of reality...
When the technology we rely on makes mistakes, what should we do? It feels like a simple question with a simple answer: if the technology is wrong, it needs fixing, and then it will be right again. But this black-and-white...
Last year, Beauty.AI held an online beauty contest, but with a twist: it was “judged by robots”. Beauty.AI was going to be scientific. Rather than using the judgements of fallible human judges, the beauty of the participants would be established...
