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In today’s political landscape, online misinformation is treated like any other lie: someone tells a lie, the lie spreads, someone else corrects it, and we all move on. This is most evident in the proposed solutions to the crisis. Tech...
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...
Politics has always been an arena for disagreement and heated arguments, and this sometimes results in insults directed at elected officials – but over the last couple of years this has become magnified following the advent of social media. Indeed,...
The internet has changed everything. We shop online, work online, and entertain ourselves online; we find jobs and partners online. It’s even changed the way we interact with our political leaders – you only have to check Twitter at around...
