Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Only 10% of the shiploads of European plastic waste sent to Turkey is recycled, experts estimate.

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Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

Government’s relentless crackdown on dissent is among the worst in modern times, say analysts

Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

Two days after declaring that "Europe can no longer be a custodian for the old world order", Ursula von der Leyen attempted to defuse the backlash by stressing her "unwavering" support for internation...

Sam Altman is Going to Transhumanist Hell

A press conference was held on Tuesday

Tribal leaders say Indigenous people have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or names.

Turkish power does not match the president’s ambitions.

As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting an...

A growing skepticism of social spending risks undermining a post-war pillar of Europe’s stability.

Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s unusual network of Trump allies and MAGA influencers helped deliver an extraordinary pardon to him.

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.

Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the im...

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People holding attitudes are a social information system that can be modelled as a bipartite social identity network, where people are bound into groups via jointly held attitudes; and attitudes in...

Issue 167: We have new free educational materials for teaching about the Power of Shared Identity

Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

Confrontational collective actions are neither uncontrolled outbursts of initially pacifist resistance nor mere reactions to helplessness and lack of viable political options. Instead, they serve str...