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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 April 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and discover how ai@cam is supporting the development of AI that works for science, citizens and society.  

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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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Museum Encounters: Parkinson's Dance Course

11 Apr 2025

The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) today launch a ground-breaking Parkinson's dance programme inspired by museum artefacts.

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Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue

10 Apr 2025

The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring...

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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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Ayla Selamoglu

Psychedelic medicine could revolutionise how we treat mental illness

02 Apr 2025

Dr. Ayla Selamoglu is an expert on psychedelic medicine. Her work shows how nature’s most mysterious compounds provide new ways to combat mental...

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Richard Turner

Opinion: AI can democratise weather forecasting

01 Apr 2025

AI will give us the next leap forward in forecasting the weather, says Richard Turner, and make it available to all countries, not just those with...

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