Artificial Intelligence

The Numbers Game: When Statistics Tell Uncomfortable Truths The Morgan Stanley report revealing that Britain leads the pack in AI-driven job losses should surprise absolutely no one who’s been paying attention to how British businesses operate. An 8% net job loss – double the international average – isn’t a bug in the system, it’s a

The Home Secretary has announced she’s throwing £140 million at some shiny new tech toys, hoping they’ll magically fix what she’s calling Britain’s “broken” policing system – because apparently the solution to everything these days is more surveillance and fewer actual police on the beat. Shabana Mahmood reckons her AI gadgets will free up six

Google says it’s introducing a new feature called ‘AI Inbox,’ using Gemini which summarises all your emails, but promises it won’t train its models on your emails. Google argues that email has changed since 2004, as users are now receive hundreds of emails every week, and the numbers keeps rising. With AI Overviews in Gmail,

This year will see the rise of “anti-AI” – where consumers and employees will refuse to use AI tools on ethical grounds. They’re very concerned about data exploitation, algorithmic bias, and the environmental cost of AI computing. Can It Be Avoided? Some English businesses are already offering opt-out features, or human-only alternatives in their products.

One third of adults in the UK are using artificial intelligence for emotional support or social interaction, according to research published by the AI Security Institute (AISI) in its first study. The survey of 2,000 UK adults is based on two years of testing the abilities of more than 30 unnamed chatbots. It found that

Deepfake videos will use AI to digitally alter footage, they sometimes blend real visuals with fake audio to make it appear as if the person in the video is saying something they never said. This is regularly seen on on social media using famous fake people. However, this is increasingly being used to create completely