Whilst the UK Parliament is focused on banning phones from schools for under-16s, a far more urgent dimension of digital safeguarding is being neglected and misunderstood: AI-generated sexual abuse material. In late December 2025 and early 2026, a pivotal moment in the fight against online sexual abuse emerged, not through a legislative breakthrough, but through… Continue reading The uncontrolled proliferation of AI-generated sexual abuse material — why regulatory promises fail victims
With the rapid advancement of various large language models (LLMs), the most known software being ChatGPT, we are now witnessing a virtual assistant that can help write emails, draft business plans and even offer life advice within its boundaries. The boundaries are what seem to be forgotten. It’s safe to say that with the growing… Continue reading AI psychosis — the danger of artificial optimism
As artificial intelligence (AI) takes over and redefines the world at an exponential rate, its implications on society grow vast. With the prolific introduction of AI chatbots, much like the global domination of social media platforms, many are turning to software such as ChatGPT, Replika, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Pi, amongst many others, to… Continue reading Searching for togetherness in a lonely world — is artificial intelligence replacing human connection?
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of replicating reality, the role of human creativity is being re-evaluated. AI can already mimic human likenesses and replicate natural scenes with stunning precision, and this precision will only grow greater. The question then arises: what is the point of replicating reality in art now that technology can do… Continue reading What can cubism teach us about creating in a world with AI?
Between the years of 1642 and 1651, the UK was in total turmoil as the Royalist and Parliamentarist forces competed to lead the way for the union’s future. One man, utterly disturbed by the skirmishes resulting in an uncertain future and a death toll of around 200.000, strived to find out how this outcome could… Continue reading Hobbes and artificial intelligence — the meta-Leviathan
Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment (plus there’s plenty of rage against it too). AI has blown up in popularity in the past couple of years thanks to large language models or LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude along with generative-AI tools such as Sora and Runway. Many naysayers assert AI is used… Continue reading Will AI Transform Human Thought?
Michael Burry of The Big Short fame has made a $845 million bet against the American AI industry. The question is, why? Well, for a number of years, analysts have alleged that the AI industry is vastly overvalued and exists in a financial bubble, and this month has seen an ongoing and deeper confirmation of… Continue reading AI bubble hits apex as Michael Burry shorts the industry — the new financial union of three tech giants
In the age of digital assistants, chatbots, and generative AI, we’ve all had the occasional encounter with a machine that seems almost human—until it inevitably messes up your grocery list or misinterprets your sarcasm. But here’s a question you might not have considered: should we treat these non-sentient entities with the same manners we use… Continue reading Should you say please and thank you to AI?
Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavorting in their garden. Today it is hard to believe these photos could have fooled anybody, but it was not until the 1980s an expert named Geoffrey Crawley… Continue reading AI image generation is advancing at astronomical speeds — can we still tell if a picture is fake?
With the proliferation of female robots such as Sophia and the popularity of female virtual assistants such as Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon) and Cortana (Microsoft), artificial intelligence (AI) seems to have a gender issue. This gender imbalance in AI is a pervasive trend that has drawn sharp criticism in the media—even UNESCO warned against the… Continue reading Why is AI mostly female?
