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01:28:25

Feeding the machine: the hidden human labour powering AI

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2024/12/04

Conversations around AI tend to focus on the future dangers, but what about the damage AI is inflicting on people right now?

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01:26:56

The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in humans,...

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2024/12/03

Birch's new book, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI, constructs a precautionary framework designed to help us reach ethically sound, evidence-based decisions despite our uncertainty.

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01:26:56

The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in humans,...

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2024/12/03

Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Birch | Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI? These are questions about the "edge of sentience", and they are subject to enormous,

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01:31:11

The Open Society as an Enemy: Populism, Popper and...

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2024/12/02

Across the world, populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, what were previously seen as virtues of the ‘Open Society’ are now, seen as vices, dangers, or threats.

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37:15

Cobalt rush: raw materials and the transition to net...

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2024/11/28

Decarbonisation of the transportation sector is a vital component in achieving the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Consequently, governments around the world are pushing forward the transition away from combustion engine to electric vehicles.

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01:25:16

Is the internet good for children?

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2024/11/27

Public anxiety about children’s digital lives and wellbeing is reaching a fever pitch, marking a notable turnaround from the decades-long efforts to ensure children are fully digitally included, literate and empowered.

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01:15:52

The rise of Africa's suburban middle classes

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2024/11/26

African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges.

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01:23:27

New World, New Rules - What Works for Global Governance

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2024/11/25

This event marks the launch of New World, New Rules by George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, in which two of European policymakers and analysts outline a new agenda for global governance.

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01:23:32

Elements of a theory of the responsible firm

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2024/11/21

The lecture will begin with a short review of economic theories of the firm, pointing out that although all the economic theories see the firm as an institutional response to improve on market and contractual inefficiencies

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01:25:57

Data visualisation: alive visual words

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2024/11/20

The talk will explore the design process and motivations behind data visualization projects, characterized by different usage contexts, responding to various needs, and with differing levels of experimentation.

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01:25:34

Fragments of home: refugee housing, humanitarian...

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2024/11/19

The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay.

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01:11:09

Daniel Kahneman: a legacy

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2024/11/18

Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was the founder of modern behavioural science and behavioural economics. His close friends and colleagues will come together to discuss his research and the scale of his influence on society.

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01:23:19

Reversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in...

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2024/11/14

30 years ago, Naila Kabeer published Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, which became a landmark study in the scholarship on gender and development.

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01:23:33

Liberal Constitutionalism, Media Ownership & the...

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2024/11/13

Liberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public institutions and the rights-wielding private persons.

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01:27:50

F.A. Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now

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2024/11/12

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize won by liberal political economist F.A. Hayek. This lecture will review some of Hayek’s key ideas and especially his contributions to the methodology of the social sciences.

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01:29:24

The US presidential election and the left

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2024/11/11

What does the outcome of the US presidential election mean for democrats and progressives? What is its significance both in the United States and around the world?

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29:39

Who owns outer space?

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2024/11/10

With companies, like SpaceX or Blue Origin, getting into space exploration and the cost of launching rockets dropping, could we see a lot more people heading into space in the future?

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01:31:06

Homelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs...

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2024/11/07

An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally.

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01:30:45

The 2024 US election: turning point for America?

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2024/11/06

Will the 2024 election mark a turning point in American democracy and in the country’s role in the world? Leading experts discuss the 2024 US election and its domestic and international implications.

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01:27:50

AI in public policy: opportunities and challenges

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2024/11/05

In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy.

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