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...

The report is the first to apply the Social Media Data Transparency Index, a systematic, first-of-its-kind evaluation of data access conditions across 15 major social media platforms in three key regu...

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...

Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company.

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...

What the British public really think about AI. A public opinion research project mapping key public mindsets on AI governance and trust.

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 new report involving hundreds of literary creatives from across the UK fiction publishing industry reveals widespread fears over copyright violation, lost income, and the future of the art form, as ...

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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