Science

The wisdom of crowds: when collective ignorance beats individual expertise

While the wisdom of crowds can help guess jelly beans or the weight of an ox, the real wisdom is knowing when – and when not – to rely on it

Evaluating the ethics of AI requires seeing through the never-ending hype

As AI becomes ubiquitous, the ethical implications of its use become ever-clearer – can skeptics use AI ethically in good conscience?

How the Data Rescue Project is protecting data from political attacks

With the US government's attack on access to information and data transparency, the Data Rescue Project's team of volunteers is keeping at-risk data alive

Why behavioural science facts falter where false information flourishes

Misinformation spreads, in part, because its messages are short and easy to grasp - meanwhile, reality is complex, nuanced, and hard to make succinct

NAD the answer? Behind the marketing hype of life-extension supplementation

When it comes to life-extension technology, there's much current hype around NAD and NMN supplementation - but robust evidence is still lacking

AI isn’t killing literature – it isn’t even close to replacing professional writers

While there were fears about a slop deluge flooding literature magazines, the truth is that AI lacks the inventiveness to rise above talented writers

The Online Safety Act doesn’t make our children any safer

The Online Safety Act may be well-intentioned, but it is a fundamentally flawed attempt to legislate away a complex social issue.

When the Great Resist conspiracy conference came to the North East

The Great Resist meeting, and its touring band of conspiracy theorists, brought their antivax rhetoric and trans-panic messaging to Gateshead
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