For #SHW26, we’re exploring how we can champion connection in an increasingly individualised world. In this blog, Dr Luke Brunning, Lecturer in Applied Ethics

For #SHW26, we’re exploring how we can champion connection in an increasingly individualised world. In this blog, Dr Luke Brunning, Lecturer in Applied Ethics

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

What our obsession with homemade hotties says about modern masculinity

Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows

What you need to know about the UK and Europe's best eclipse in 27 years

Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions

Some young adults already believe AI partners could replace their real-life sexual relationships. Experts can't raise red flags fast enough.

Abstract. Prompting a chatbot to write an apology or a love letter on your behalf is a form of emotional outsourcing—an act in which a person gives over a

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La banalisation de l’IA sape la curiosité de soi et l’envie de prendre des risques, nécessaires à la construction d’une véritable intimité et de relations qui ont du sens.

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The British Academy Ideas Festival returns on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June. Celebrating bold thinking and unexpected discoveries from the histories that shape our identities to the forces influencin...

Exclusive: Ministers consider national threshold in England that could in effect bar thousands from studying

The normalisation of AI to mediate and shape intimacy arguably erodes self-curiosity.

The normalisation of AI to mediate and shape intimacy arguably erodes self-curiosity.

Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...

Updated code of practice covering England, Wales and Scotland also relates to changing rooms and follows supreme court ruling

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts

Romantic Agency: Loving Well in Modern Life, This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives

Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacks

This year, Dementia Action Week runs from May 18–24. Throughout the month, we'll be discussing dementia and the ethics of care on the blog. In our first post, Luke Brunning sits down with Matilda Cart...

The ODDA is reviewing its member standards in partnership with the University of Leeds to ensure they remain relevant and up to date

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.