Alex Krasodomski-Jones takes the CASM reins
It’s exciting as it is daunting to be taking the reins at CASM. It’s also an opportunity to reflect on what exactly our centre is for, as well as say thank you to all the support and wisdom that Jamie,...
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It’s exciting as it is daunting to be taking the reins at CASM. It’s also an opportunity to reflect on what exactly our centre is for, as well as say thank you to all the support and wisdom that Jamie,...
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...
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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...
This week the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published their review into political parties’ use of data, along with a £500k fine for Facebook, relating to the Cambridge Analytica data breach. The very short, simplified version is this: most of the...
The day after a report surfaced that one third of revenge porn victims in Britain drop their allegations, Sir Christopher Chope MP singlehandedly blocked a bill aimed at protecting victims of upskirting. Regardless of his intentions, the act was taken...
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...