Technical understandings of hate speech have direct consequences for how it is seen and acted on In a new open access paper, MCTD’s Dr Stefanie Ullmann illustrates how technical understandings of hate...

Young people are protesting around the world but about what and are they winning?

Professor Gina Neff will join CISL’s Adele Williams for a fireside chat on AI and Health as part the Cambridge Forum Tech For Good Conference. 10 September 2026 c. 15.30 – 14.00; part of the Cambridge...

The ChatGPT-maker said training will be slowed for two weeks while it puts the upgrades in place.

MCTD joined CISL to welcome Her Excellency the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of Australia, to Cambridge for discussions on responsible technology governance, sustainability challenges, an...

Today, we announce that the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy (MCTD) joins forces with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) to help businesses navigate the AI transi...

A new paper, published in PolComm and co-authored by MCTD's Hugo Leal, finds that social media platforms are increasingly restricting access to public data, creating unequal data access regimes across...

New research from MCTD affiliate Daniel Stone shows AI anxiety is reshaping UK politics A major new report, UK AI Compass: What the UK Public Thinks About AI, conducted by Diffusion and supported by t...

Professor Ann Kristin Glenster has published a new paper with the Harvard Kennedy School Carr-Ryan Center on the legal shortcomings behind why deceptive designs are still so prevalent in the online en...

Our Policy and Impact Manager, Tom Lacy, shares reflections from the Digital Ethics Summit 2025.

Dr Clementine Collett examines how industry practitioners, from novelists to publishers, are experiencing AI’s significant impacts

A Cambridge report says about half of those surveyed think AI could

A new study by the University of Cambridge found many authors’ work has already been used – without their permission – to train large language models More than half of published novelists in the UK believe artificial intelligence could eventually replace their work entirely, according to a new report from the University of Cambridge. The study, conducted for the university’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, suggests widespread unease about the speed and scale of AI’s advance into the literary world. Continue reading...

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A report examining how literary creatives being affected by GenAI and what measures they want see implemented by the government to protect the UK’s literary scene.

Professor Gina Neff joins panel on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg to discuss harms caused by AI Chatbots Our Executive Director, Professor Gina Neff, joined this week’s episode of Sunday with Laura Kuen...

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Our Executive Director Professor Gina Neff reflects on a Reframe Venture workshop on what the AI booms means for climate change.

The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.

Professor Gina Neff appears on BBC Radio 4 Today to give her view on AI Growth Labs.

Louise Amoore and our Affiliate Dr Audrey Borowski will discuss the ethical responsibility of algorithms.

Our Head of Strategic Communications, Navneet Gidda, reflects on the Liberal Democrats Conference 2025 in Bournemouth.