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    The Turing Lectures: Frontier AI under pressure - building resilience across layers

    Tuesday 28 Apr 2026
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    Chris Hicks Mikel Rodriguez
    The Turing Lectures: Frontier AI under pressure - building resilience across layers
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    Wednesday 27 May 2026
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    Scott Hosking Sasha Luccioni
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Children’s manifesto expresses hope for better education on AI ahead of Paris AI Action Summit

Children and young people want to see better education on AI to improve understanding...

Monday 10 Feb 2025
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Council of Europe adopts Turing-developed human rights risk and impact assessment for AI systems

A framework developed by researchers at the Alan Turing Institute titled ‘the Human Rights...

Thursday 05 Dec 2024
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Majority of doctors using AI are optimistic about its benefits

Over a quarter of doctors (29%) have used some form of AI in their...

Wednesday 23 Oct 2024
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9 in 10 concerned about deepfakes affecting election results

Close to nine in ten people (87.4%) in the UK are concerned about deepfakes...

Tuesday 02 Jul 2024
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More than 90% of UK population have encountered misinformation online

More than 9 in 10 people (94%) in the UK have reported witnessing misinformation...

Thursday 30 May 2024
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AI could help automate around 84% of repetitive service transactions across government

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help automate around 84% of repetitive transactions across 200 government...

Wednesday 20 Mar 2024
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Women miss out on AI venture capital investment, new analysis finds

New research shows that women are being left out in the race to invest in AI

Wednesday 04 Oct 2023
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Data science should be used to build resilience in government decision-making, new Turing white paper finds

A new white paper explores how data science can support human expertise to make government and policy decisions more robust in the aftermath of crises

Thursday 29 Jun 2023
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What does the government’s white paper consultation response mean for UK AI regulation?

Some thoughts from the Turing’s public policy programme

Thursday 08 Feb 2024
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Majority of British public support ‘laws and regulations’ to guide the use of AI, according to a new nationwide survey

More than 60% of the British public support ‘laws and regulations’ to guide the...

Tuesday 06 Jun 2023
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Green cities: why we’re using AI to map urban trees

Our new technique aims to help cities plant trees where they are most needed

Tuesday 14 Feb 2023
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Seven in ten Premier League footballers face Twitter abuse

The Alan Turing Institute and Ofcom have worked together to analyse more than 2.3...

Tuesday 02 Aug 2022
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Camden’s Data Charter: why good data governance is like being a parent

The Turing’s Christopher Burr on his involvement in the UK’s first resident-informed Data Charter

Thursday 27 Jan 2022
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Helping organisations to explain decisions made with AI

The Turing’s public policy programme and the Information Commissioner’s Office have co-produced a first-of-its-kind guidance document

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Who is most vulnerable to health-related misinformation?

New research at the Turing reveals who is most likely to believe online misinformation – and what can be done to tackle the problem

Monday 01 Mar 2021
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New UN commissioned report offers policy recommendations to address digital gender divide

A new paper offers key policy recommendations for using technology to advance gender equality.

Monday 10 Aug 2020
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Supercharging sustainable development with a new policy priority tool from the Turing backed by UNDP

A bold new approach to development economics, championed by the Turing and UNDP.

Wednesday 27 May 2020
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Children are excited by AI but many do not feel safe online, new research finds

New research explores children’s current knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI), with the aim of involving them in its development in future

Wednesday 17 May 2023
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Ethics review recommends cautious, thoughtful and inclusive approach to using machine learning in children’s social care

What Works for Children’s Social Care is pleased to be publishing a review of...

Thursday 30 Jan 2020
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Responsible innovation from the ground-up

The Turing and Greater Manchester explore digital ethics in practice

Wednesday 11 Dec 2019
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