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Technology for all: Ensuring innovation serves the most vulnerable

Technology for all: Ensuring innovation serves the most vulnerable

While most people have access to powerful tools such as smartphones, technology also plays a crucial role in supporting individuals with mobility challenges, disabilities and other accessibility needs.

Trust is a Social Bond

Trust is a Social Bond

How does disinformation impact public trust in science? And can healthy scepticism be a good thing? A debate between climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne, communication scientist Mike S. Schäfer and former Swiss Federal Chancellor Walter Thurnherr.

Citizen Participation and Technology: Lessons from the Fields of Deliberative Democracy and Science and Technology Studies

Citizen Participation and Technology: Lessons from the Fields of Deliberative Democracy and Science and Technology Studies

Deliberative democracy could be enriched by a deeper engagement with the material aspects of democratic processes. STS scholars would benefit from engaging more closely with democratic theory, as well.

Who Were the Winners and Losers of African Democracy in 2024?

Who Were the Winners and Losers of African Democracy in 2024?

In 2024, 18 elections took place on the African continent, from Senegal to South Africa, Algeria to Ghana, with the results an equal mix of democratic success stories and challenges still to overcome.

Public Trust in Science is Ebbing - and Will Have Real-world Consequences

Public Trust in Science is Ebbing - and Will Have Real-world Consequences

Anti-science attitudes have historically encumbered societal progress in the U.S., often with serious ramifications. The scientific community is now bracing for upheaval as the Trump administration prepares to take office.

Do Large Language Models Have a Legal Duty to Tell The Truth?

Do Large Language Models Have a Legal Duty to Tell The Truth?

Leading experts in regulation and ethics at the Oxford Internet Institute, have identified a new type of harm created by LLMs which they believe poses long-term risks to democratic societies and needs to be addressed by creating a new legal duty for LLM providers.

Revisiting the 'Research Parasite' Debate in the Age of AI

Revisiting the 'Research Parasite' Debate in the Age of AI

Large language models used in AI bots like ChatGTP have made an old debate about data democracy relevant again.

Nobel Prize Scientists on AI, Democracy and Critical Thinking

Nobel Prize Scientists on AI, Democracy and Critical Thinking

Nobel prize-winning scientists and a world-leading AI researcher highlighted the dazzling potential of AI to support research, the contributions of science to democracy and the importance of critical thinking in the age of AI, at a Nobel Prize Dialogue held in Brussels this week.