Tech Brief 23 November 2025 examines technology’s impact on education, gender bias in professional platforms, and enhanced cybercrime policing, highlighting crucial debates on automation vs. human teaching and digital fairness.
Tech Brief 10 November 2025 explores major shifts in quantum computing and AI challenges. Learn about the UK’s massive investment in quantum technology and the complexities that arise from AI in public systems.
Explore how AI can infer mental states through ‘digital phenotyping’ by analysing behaviour from smartphones and wearables, a powerful yet controversial capability.
Examining why we continue to be enchanted by chatbots like ELIZA, attributing them with emotional capacities they don’t possess, despite knowing their mechanical nature.
Talia Wainwright examines the complex reality of AI, data privacy, and the limitations of the Right to Be Forgotten in the age of machine learning.
Explore how AI feedback loops can mimic and amplify human biases, leading to a gradual erosion of diverse human expression and knowledge. Understand the mechanisms causing this phenomenon and its impact on AI training data quality.
Explore the journey from Microsoft’s Clippy, an early virtual assistant, to the advanced AI capabilities of Copilot, examining their impacts on user interaction and technology evolution.
Explore the transformative journey of AI in online dating, from automated avatar dates in virtual Paris to deepfake emotions. Understand how intimacy and human connections are being reshaped by sophisticated AI technologies.
From warped VHS to chatty AI avatars, the Digital Afterlife promises comfort without decay. This feature asks whether perfect memory helps us heal or keeps us from letting go, and argues for consent, clear disclosure, and designed imperfection. Sometimes the kindest archive is the one that fades.
Tracing the journey of adult content from dial-up patience to instant AI gratification reveals how internet pornography drove technological advancements—and sparked critical ethical debates. Explore how past digital desires shape our future
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