Category: AI Data and Society

Can AI help with the heavy lifting of research communications?

Considering the key skills required for effective research communication, Andy Tattersall, discusses how he has used AI tools to augment his work and what this might mean for academics and professionals looking to engage wider audiences. Depending on w…

AI can crack double blind peer review – should we still use it?

Artificial intelligence models are particularly good at pattern matching, one potential application of this is the development of tools that detect and identify author styles, a situation that has implications for nominally blind peer review processes….

Book Review | Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

In Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare, Klaus Hoeyer examines the paradoxes surrounding healthcare data, looking at Denmark as a case study, arguing that increased data collection does not always result …

Book Review: OK by Michelle McSweeney

In OK, Michelle McSweeney charts the history of the word ‘OK,’ from its origins in the steam-powered printing press through inventions like the telegraph and telephone and into the digital age. McSweeney illustrates how the linguistic creativity accomp…

What the deep history of deepfakes tells us about trust in images

The ability to manipulate and generate images with new technologies presents various challenges to traditional media reporting and also scholarly communication. However, as Joshua Habgood-Coote discusses the history of fake images shows, rather than he…

LawGPT? How AI is Reshaping the Legal Profession

Generative AI is causing many fields of expert and professional knowledge to reassess fundamental practices and their value. Taking law, a field that has long been warned of potential threats of automation, as a focus, Giulia Gentile outlines the socio…

Knowledge work and the role of higher education in an AI era

As AI becomes increasingly entangled into different forms of knowledge work, Bert Verhoeven and Vishal Rana discuss how higher education can adapt to meet the needs of a changing labour market. Pointing to the limits of traditional forms of testing in …

Book Review: Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth

In Being You, Anil Seth takes us on a comprehensive tour through the science of consciousness, drawing on the most up-to-date data, lessons and theories in the field. This is a compelling book that will leave readers pondering whether new technologies …