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Artificial Intelligence

Britain's data watchdog has a warning for big tech and AI companies: 'We're watching you'
Artificial Intelligence

Britain's data watchdog has a warning for big tech and AI companies: 'We're watching you'

Teething problems with VAR and handball rules serve as a warning about AI
Artificial Intelligence

Teething problems with VAR and handball rules serve as a warning about AI

Millions of lost jobs or a four-day working week? The impact of AI on the job market is complicated
Artificial Intelligence

Millions of lost jobs or a four-day working week? The impact of AI on the job market is complicated

AI is a tool like the paintbrush – it can be used for good things and terrible things
Phillip Toledano

AI is a tool like the paintbrush – it can be used for good things and terrible things

How the death of toddler Awaab Ishak inspired the creation of AI app to tackle damp and mould
Rochdale toddler Awaab Ishak died due to damp and mould in his social housing flat
Technology

How the death of toddler Awaab Ishak inspired the creation of AI app to tackle damp and mould

AI skills will soon be as necessary for job seekers as Microsoft Word. Who will be left behind?
ai
Artificial Intelligence

AI skills will soon be as necessary for job seekers as Microsoft Word. Who will be left behind?

Why we should rename artificial intelligence to 'unnatural intelligence'
'No AI' sign
John Bird

Why we should rename artificial intelligence to 'unnatural intelligence'

Tony Blair thinks the DWP could be automated by AI. Here's why that's so dangerous
Former prime minister Tony Blair
Susannah Copson

Tony Blair thinks the DWP could be automated by AI. Here's why that's so dangerous

How AI might accelerate the onset of a universal basic income
Paul McNamee

How AI might accelerate the onset of a universal basic income

Zoë Wanamaker on Donald Trump, 'right-wing a**holes' and why we all should be kinder to one another
zoe wanamaker
Social justice

Zoë Wanamaker on Donald Trump, 'right-wing a**holes' and why we all should be kinder to one another

AI in schools: Bullies using AI to create sexually explicit images of classmates, parents warned
Artificial Intelligence

AI in schools: Bullies using AI to create sexually explicit images of classmates, parents warned

DWP ramps up AI use to 'bring the future to the welfare system' and push people into work
disability benefits
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP ramps up AI use to 'bring the future to the welfare system' and push people into work

Why AI quiz makers like ChatGPT are no match for human ingenuity  
Artificial intelligence

Why AI quiz makers like ChatGPT are no match for human ingenuity  

Civil War director Alex Garland on ChatGPT, 28 Years Later and why Britain is like a 'pet cat'
Civil War, Alex Garland
Film

Civil War director Alex Garland on ChatGPT, 28 Years Later and why Britain is like a 'pet cat'

'Job apocalypse': Up to 8 million Brits risk losing their jobs to AI, government warned
Employment

'Job apocalypse': Up to 8 million Brits risk losing their jobs to AI, government warned

What the disastrous 'Willy Wonka experience' tells us about AI and its 'pollution' of bad content
Artificial Intelligence

What the disastrous 'Willy Wonka experience' tells us about AI and its 'pollution' of bad content

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler review – the mammoth risks of playing God with nature
Books

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler review – the mammoth risks of playing God with nature

DWP should never use AI to suspend benefit claims, experts insist: 'People are still struggling'
A miniature figurine businessman looking down on an information booklet for department for work and pensions
Benefits

DWP should never use AI to suspend benefit claims, experts insist: 'People are still struggling'

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses 'significant risk', experts warn
ai
Benefits

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses 'significant risk', experts warn

Now and Then: is it time for Beatles fanboys to finally let it be?
The Beatles, Sgt Pepper's launch party, 19 May 1967
Music

Now and Then: is it time for Beatles fanboys to finally let it be?