Intelligence

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the insurance sector promises a future of hyper-personalized and potentially cheaper premiums by leveraging massive streams of behavioral data from telematics, wearables, and smart sensors. The pitch is simple and appealing: AI...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), while offering immense societal benefits, poses fundamental new risks to the stability of governance and critical services across the globe. These threats are not limited to distant, theoretical scenarios but are actively undermining national security, election...

The rapid advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has placed the integrity of traditional education under unprecedented stress. As AI tools effortlessly produce photorealistic images and sophisticated written assignments, the conventional assessment model—reliant primarily on written work—is collapsing. This...

The article expresses strong skepticism regarding the OECD's hasty decision to include an AI Literacy component in the 2029 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests 15-year-olds globally. The authors argue that this rapid push for a global...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the fundamental ways we create and consume information, disrupting long-held assumptions about the authenticity of both text and images. The core argument is that while education traditionally focuses on writing literacy, the...

The question of what age a child should get a smartphone is a common one for both parents and kids. A 2019 report revealed that over half of U.S. children have a smartphone by the age of 11, with...

The debate over whether to allow smartphones in schools has intensified following a new report from UNESCO, which raises concerns about the devices' disruptive nature and links them to cyberbullying. With some countries already enacting full bans, school leaders...

The UK's justice system faces a crisis characterized by significant case backlogs and logistical failures, largely stemming from over a decade of chronic underfunding (austerity). While the government is promoting Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) like...

While high-profile, disruptive actions like blocking roads or gluing oneself to buildings by groups like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion command media attention and create a "radical flank effect," these are far from the only, or even the...

The evacuation of Heathrow’s Terminal 4, initially attributed by police to a probable case of “mass hysteria” (or mass psychogenic disorder), provides a stark example of how social contagion operates. This phenomenon describes the rapid, seemingly infectious spread of...