Aim policies at ‘hardware’ to ensure AI safety, say experts
14 February 2024Chips and datacentres – the “compute” driving the AI revolution – may be the most effective targets for risk-reducing AI policies, according to a new report.
Policies for People and Planet
06 December 2023Cambridge Zero symposium gathers researchers to examine the rules and incentives needed to combat climate change.
Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for ‘universal basic infrastructure’ in UK
05 December 2023Per capita access to hospitals, mental health services, and further education facilities in German towns and cities – primarily in the former GDR – now outstrip equivalent areas in England, often several times over, according to research.
Heads reveal how ‘overwhelming’ Government guidance held schools back as COVID hit
05 August 2021Headteachers and school leaders have described how an ‘avalanche’ of confused and shifting Government guidance severely impeded schools during the critical first months of COVID lockdown in a new study.
‘Overwhelming’ international support for more government action on environment
01 March 2021Ahead of COP26, a survey experiment taking in the UK, US, Brazil, India, China, Indonesia and Poland finds huge support for more action from governments to protect the environment.
People in England’s poorest towns ‘lose over a decade of good health’, research finds
17 June 2020Cambridge researchers find major health inequalities – as well as a geographic divide – between the most and least deprived English towns. They say that life expectancy in cities is now overtaking towns for the first time.
Opinion: Climate change, pandemics, biodiversity loss – no country is sufficiently prepared
01 November 2019Two Cambridge risk researchers discuss how national governments are still stuck on "old problems", and run through the things that should be keeping our leaders awake at night.
One day of paid work a week is all we need to get mental health benefits of employment
19 June 2019Latest research finds up to eight hours of paid work a week significantly boosts mental health and life satisfaction. However, researchers found little evidence that any more hours – including a full five-day week – provide further increases in wellbeing.
Food and drinks industry uses non-profit organisation to campaign against public health policies, study finds
03 June 2019A new study shows how a non-profit research organisation has been deployed by its backers from major food and beverage corporations to push industry-favourable positions to policymakers and international bodies under the guise of neutral scientific endeavour.
Contracts give Coca-Cola power to ‘quash’ health research, study suggests
08 May 2019New study of FOI documents uncovers provisions that could allow the beverage giant to suppress findings from health science it funds at North American universities. Researchers argue that Coca-Cola’s contracts run counter to their public declarations of openness.
