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Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Sustainability – An Accomplice or Antagonist?

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 By Emma James

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has very recently emerged as a powerful tool with the potential to address global challenges, including anthropogenically induced climate change

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Opinion: Criminalising Explicit Deepfakes – a Step Towards Combatting Online Misogyny 

January 31, 2025January 30, 2025 By Jade Effemey

‘Deepfake’ is a term that the majority of the technological world is now familiar with. By definition, it is artificial intelligence that can

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Opinion: It’s Looking Like a Bot Summer – How Bots Have Been Shaping our Political Discourse 

January 29, 2025 By Amelie Singleton

Whilst brat summer may be over, a new technological and perhaps far less friendly trend is taking over. 

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Opinion: Facial Recognition Technology – A Threat to Human Rights?  

November 22, 2024November 21, 2024 By Jade Effemey

In the modern day, Facial Recognition Technology follows us everywhere. We might not know what it is, or how it works, but it is almost guaranteed we will encounter it in our lives.

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Opinion: AI Isn’t the Real Concern in the 2024 Election

November 12, 2024February 7, 2025 By Sedef Duygu

Voter suppression, the spread of misinformation through traditional media channels and the erosion of trust in institutions are arguably far more impactful and dangerous than any AI-generated deepfake. By placing so much attention on AI, we risk neglecting these fundamental issues.

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Opinion: Women Don’t Owe You Robot

March 23, 2024November 6, 2024 By Elizabeth Strassheim

In a beauty feature for Dazed magazine published on January 17th 2024, model Nassia Matsa describes her experience of sitting on the tube

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‘Support Artists not Algorithms’: Government-Led Negotiations with Creative Industries Stall 

February 9, 2024February 8, 2024 By Charlotte Aspinall

The establishment of national rules and regulations for artificial intelligence models using copyrighted materials have paused. Because many Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are

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The Future of AI in Modern Warfare

February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 By George Thomas

The capabilities of artificial intelligence are growing, and everyone knows it. Initially seen as a force for good, as a demonstration of the

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