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Artificial intelligence

Cambridge awarded €1.9m to stop AI undermining ‘core human values’

09 Feb 2022

Work at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence will aim to prevent the embedding of existing inequalities – from gender to class and...

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Yesim Yaprak Yildiz, PhD student

Postgraduate Pioneers 2017 #4

31 Oct 2017

With our Postgraduate Open Day fast-approaching (3 November), we introduce five PhD students who are already making waves at Cambridge.

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Human rights of people with autism not being met, leading expert tells United Nations

31 Mar 2017

The basic human rights of autistic people are not being met, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, a world expert on autism, told the United Nations in New...

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'Syrian Hero Boy'

The Whistle: verifying digital evidence of human rights violations

12 Oct 2016

Smartphones and social media have made it easy for accidental witnesses “in the wrong place at the wrong time” to capture and share violations and...

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Human Rights Day

Human Rights in the United Kingdom: Where Now?

22 May 2015

Prior to the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party undertook in its manifesto to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to enact a British Bill...

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‘Para Ingles ver’ (for the English to see): the other side of the World Cup

05 Jul 2014

Brazilians are famous for their love of football but millions of ordinary people are angry at the huge sums spent on the World Cup. Lucy McMahon, a...

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David Stuckler (left) and Sridhar Venkatapuram (right)

Ethical dilemmas and global health

15 May 2012

Sociologists David Stuckler and Sridhar Venkatapuram discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide...

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Justice sends mixed messages

Children’s evidence cross-examined

16 Mar 2011

Should young children be exposed to the traumatic experience of giving evidence in open court, or does the justice system need to change its approach...

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