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AI was meant to make the DWP benefits system more efficient. Instead it’s brought bias and hunger
Iris Lim

AI was meant to make the DWP benefits system more efficient. Instead it’s brought bias and hunger

Rather than ensuring that vulnerable claimants are supported from the start, the system puts the onus on claimants to prove that they deserve the assistance they receive, writes Iris Lim

Britain’s data watchdog has a warning for big tech and AI companies: ‘We’re watching you’
Artificial Intelligence

Britain’s data watchdog has a warning for big tech and AI companies: ‘We’re watching you’

The Information Commissioner’s Office is turning 40. The head of the UK’s data watchdog tells the Big Issue how it is keeping pace with big tech and the artificial intelligence race

Teething problems with VAR and handball rules serve as a warning about AI
Artificial Intelligence

Teething problems with VAR and handball rules serve as a warning about AI

Often technology can’t solve human judgement problems, and sometimes the most amazing technologies just create more problems for human judgement

Millions of lost jobs or a four-day working week? The impact of AI on the job market is complicated
Artificial Intelligence

Millions of lost jobs or a four-day working week? The impact of AI on the job market is complicated

AI is a tool like the paintbrush – it can be used for good things and terrible things
Phillip Toledano

AI is a tool like the paintbrush – it can be used for good things and terrible things

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How the death of toddler Awaab Ishak inspired the creation of AI app to tackle damp and mould
Technology

How the death of toddler Awaab Ishak inspired the creation of AI app to tackle damp and mould

AI skills will soon be as necessary for job seekers as Microsoft Word. Who will be left behind?
Artificial Intelligence

AI skills will soon be as necessary for job seekers as Microsoft Word. Who will be left behind?

Why we should rename artificial intelligence to ‘unnatural intelligence’
John Bird

Why we should rename artificial intelligence to ‘unnatural intelligence’

Tony Blair thinks the DWP could be automated by AI. Here’s why that’s so dangerous
Susannah Copson

Tony Blair thinks the DWP could be automated by AI. Here’s why that’s so dangerous

How AI might accelerate the onset of a universal basic income
Paul McNamee

How AI might accelerate the onset of a universal basic income

Zoë Wanamaker on Donald Trump, ‘right-wing a**holes’ and why we all should be kinder to one another
Social justice

Zoë Wanamaker on Donald Trump, ‘right-wing a**holes’ and why we all should be kinder to one another

AI in schools: Bullies using AI to create sexually explicit images of classmates, parents warned
Artificial Intelligence

AI in schools: Bullies using AI to create sexually explicit images of classmates, parents warned

DWP ramps up AI use to ‘bring the future to the welfare system’ and push people into work
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP ramps up AI use to ‘bring the future to the welfare system’ and push people into work

Civil War director Alex Garland on ChatGPT, 28 Years Later and why Britain is like a ‘pet cat’
Film

Civil War director Alex Garland on ChatGPT, 28 Years Later and why Britain is like a ‘pet cat’

‘Job apocalypse’: Up to 8 million Brits risk losing their jobs to AI, government warned
Employment

‘Job apocalypse’: Up to 8 million Brits risk losing their jobs to AI, government warned

What the disastrous ‘Willy Wonka experience’ tells us about AI and its ‘pollution’ of bad content
Artificial Intelligence

What the disastrous ‘Willy Wonka experience’ tells us about AI and its ‘pollution’ of bad content

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler review – the mammoth risks of playing God with nature
Books

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler review – the mammoth risks of playing God with nature

DWP should never use AI to suspend benefit claims, experts insist: ‘People are still struggling’
Benefits

DWP should never use AI to suspend benefit claims, experts insist: ‘People are still struggling’

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses ‘significant risk’, experts warn
Benefits

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses ‘significant risk’, experts warn

Now and Then: is it time for Beatles fanboys to finally let it be?
Music

Now and Then: is it time for Beatles fanboys to finally let it be?

AI’s threat to democracy and labour looms large. UK’s ‘doomsday’ AI summit is poised to make things worse
Alex Winter

AI’s threat to democracy and labour looms large. UK’s ‘doomsday’ AI summit is poised to make things worse

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The Creator: Could AI have generated Gareth Edwards’ gorgeous new sci-fi blockbuster?
Artificial intelligence

The Creator: Could AI have generated Gareth Edwards’ gorgeous new sci-fi blockbuster?

What will AI mean for education?
Education

What will AI mean for education?

The governments who called on sci-fi writers to predict the future
military

The governments who called on sci-fi writers to predict the future

Even AI can’t compute the daft drama of The Night Agent
Lucy Sweet

Even AI can’t compute the daft drama of The Night Agent