By Avidan Kent, Professor of Law, University of East Anglia
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has been a prominent figure in the news in recent years. In 2023, he requested – and was granted – a warrant for the arrest of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.
He then dived into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2024,…
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By Alex Connock, Senior Fellow in Management Practice, University of Oxford
The Black Eyed Peas star thinks the naysayers are overlooking everything from AI’s future capabilities to the things that make human artists unique.
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By Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath
All of the 72 deaths caused by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017 were avoidable. The same could be said of the 346 people who died in two separate Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. And the the 47 people killed in 2013 by a train derailment in Canada, or the 116 children and 28 adults killed in the Aberfan…
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By Andy Phippen, Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
Parents concerned about the possible dangers smartphone use might have for their children are turning to “dumb phones”. These are the brick-shaped or flip phones today’s parents might have had themselves as teenagers, only capable of making calls or sending text messages and lacking access to social media apps.
Phones available include a remake of noughties classic the Nokia…
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By Christina Clark-Kazak, Professor, Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
People don’t lose their expertise when they cross borders. But they often face structural barriers due to language, precarious immigration status and decreased access to support from academia.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
Some social media users are trying to stay awake for as long as possible – here’s why it’s a terrible idea
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By Andrew Stevens, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina
After decades of inflation and wage stagnation have eroded wages for workers, the upcoming wage hikes represent progress. But workers certainly deserve more than that.
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By Tiara Sukhan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University
International casts of the ‘Love is Blind’ franchise are joyfully disrupting the marriage as end-game narrative put forth by the original U.S. producers.
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By Adam Jortner, Goodwin Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion, Auburn University
Science fiction can be thought of as a film negative of history – a back door into what used to worry people and what gave them hope.
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By David Danks, Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, & Policy, University of California, San Diego
Mike Kirby, Professor of Computing, University of Utah
Autonomous AI is still designed by people − so who or what is really responsible for its actions? For centuries, theologians have posed similar questions about mankind and God.
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