Ethical approval Before commencement of the analysis, approval was obtained following review by the Privacy Risk and Impact Assessment (PRIA) governance body of the bank. Following an initial review by a Data Privacy Manager and a Data Privacy Risk Specialist, the application underwent an additional review by a Group Data Protection Officer, in accordance with
Earlier this year, education researcher Lixiang Yan realized that students could outsource all of their work for his university course to artificial intelligence. In praise of human teachers: universities must resist outsourcing everything to AI Yan, who teaches at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, was using an agentic AI called Codex to set up an
Study 1 (survey fielded in 2021; YouGov CES) We fielded this extensive survey to N = 3,227 non-Hispanic white people in November 2021 as part of the CES—a widely used source of data in peer-reviewed political science research on US public opinion. The CES’s in-depth Common Content questionnaire and respondent geocodes permit documentation of the demographic and
Protesters call for the public to put stock in scientists at a UK climate march. Credit: Michael Kemp/Alamy At a time when misinformation is rife and many seem to be questioning scientific evidence, do people really trust scientists? In the United Kingdom, the answer is mostly yes, finds a study led by the Policy Institute
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Ted Schwaba, Lindsay S. Ackerman & Josephine C. M. Fealy Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States Margaret L. Clapp Sullivan Department of Biological Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wonuola A. Akingbuwa, Eco J. C. de
Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other Anthony Chemero Columbia Univ. Press (2026) Consciousness research is having an AI moment. Will the hype help the field? What does it mean for a machine to be intelligent, sentient or conscious? Can the idea of legal rights for machines ever be meaningfully justified? Those
