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Gina Neff

Opinion: Whether democracy can survive AI will depend on us

14 Apr 2025

What is the best framework for the global governance of AI? How do we respond to tech companies who argue against regulation? Is our current pace of...

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Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue

10 Apr 2025

From social media to AI, online technologies are changing too fast for the scientific infrastructure used to gauge its public health harms, say two...

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Serena Nik-Zainal at the Early Cancer Institute

Scientists create 'metal detector' to hunt down tumours

10 Apr 2025

Cambridge researchers have created a ‘metal detector’ algorithm that can hunt down vulnerable tumours, in a development that could one day...

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AI can be good for our health and wellbeing

07 Apr 2025

Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.

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Eoin McKinney, Mihaela van der Schaar and Andres Floto

Opinion: AI can transform health and medicine

07 Apr 2025

AI has the potential to transform health and medicine. It won't be straightforward, but if we get it right, the benefits could be enormous. Andres...

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Turbocharging the race to protect nature and climate with AI

06 Apr 2025

Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.

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Anil Madhavapeddy

Opinion: AI can help us heal the planet

04 Apr 2025

AI can do in seconds what might take a team of experts a year. This is why we must harness it to reverse the damage we’ve done to the planet. Anil...

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Michael Barrett

Opinion: We must balance the risks and benefits of AI

04 Apr 2025

AI will only be as good – or as bad – as the information fed into it, so we need to fix any bias that perpetuates inequality and marginalisation...

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Jill Duffy

Opinion: AI belongs in classrooms

04 Apr 2025

AI in education has transformative potential for students, teachers and schools but only if we harness it in the right way – by keeping people at the...

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Anna Korhonen

Opinion: Humans should be at the heart of AI

03 Apr 2025

With the right development and application, AI could become a transformative force for good. What's missing in current technologies is human insight...

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10 Cambridge AI spinouts

02 Apr 2025

Meet 10 Cambridge spinouts, all hoping to harness the potential of AI for the good of the planet and its people.

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Neil Lawrence and Jess Montgomery

Opinion: Universities play a vital role in the future of AI

02 Apr 2025

Universities can bridge the gap between those who develop AI systems and those who will use and be affected by them. We must step up to deliver this...

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