Kate Devlin dispels the sudden Science Fiction panic around superintelligence, and looks at the real threats to employment and the environment from AI and machine learning
Tech, Data and Algorithms
Artificial intelligence has already made its way into newsrooms – what are the risks?
Renowned weapons expert Dan Kaszeta reveals how he fell victim to a Soviet-style blacklist after UK officials discovered he had criticised Government policy on Twitter
The policy change does not go so far as to prohibit the use of automatic deletion functionality around messages
24-hour news, smartphones, social media, Simon Speakman Cordall explores how the incessant and diverting streams of news and comment are radicalising us all
Chris Ogden shows how the logical extension of banning the Chinese platform for its data collection would be to clamp down on other forms of social media, including Facebook and Google
UK police forces are under scrutiny for their lack of transparency regarding the use of harmful technologies known to exacerbate racist policing
Despite years of asking for the former special advisor’s WhatsApp messages under Freedom of Information laws, the Cabinet Office may never have asked Dominic Cummings for them. Why? Iain Overton reports
Isabel Oakeshott's exposé comes in the wake of repeated rejections by the Government of every Freedom of Information request on the disclosure of ministers' use of WhatsApp for official business, reports Iain Overton
New research has found that non-consensual sharing of intimate images bear many of the hallmarks of domestic abuse