presented the “AI Futures Beyond Net Zero” paper online at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD15) conference today, Thursday 8 October 2026. The paper describes insights from …

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In the run-up to his event at this year's Festival of Debate, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel speaks to Alice Flanagan about degrowth and his hopes for mass mobilisation across the globe.

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Job Opening: Part Time Postdoctoral Research Assistant In Design for Transition (Fixed Term) at Bath Spa University in Bath, Somerset - Locksbrook Campus.

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Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation ~ Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi ~ A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently ear...

Futures of education are increasingly defined through predictive technologies and methods. We conceptualize ‘algorithmic futuring’ as the use of data-driven digital methods and predictive infrastru...

The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.

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The veterans dug a symbolic grave for children who have died during the war in Gaza.

Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.

The PM’s allies on the right of the party are ideologically opposed to any economic agenda that could see off the threat from Reform, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, was found dead on Nov. 26 in his apartment, reports say. Balaji, 26, was an OpenAI researcher of four years who left the company in August. He had accused hi...

This post is the fourth in the Beyond ChatGPT series about generative AI’s impact on learning.