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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Robert Diab, Professor, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University OpenAI’s recent rollout of its new video generator Sora 2 marks a watershed moment in AI. Its ability to generate minutes of hyper-realistic footage from a few lines of text is astonishing, and has raised immediate concerns…
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The evidence is clear: National pharmacare for contraception can’t wait
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Elizabeth Nethery, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of British Columbia Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while the rest of Canadians do not? Our new research, published in the British Medical Journal and JAMA Pediatrics,…
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Attachment to our home town runs deep – so what happens when it faces dramatic change?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aled Mark Singleton, Lecturer in Human Geography, Cardiff University When the news broke in the autumn of 2023 that the blast furnaces at the steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales, were closing, the headlines were laced with emotion: “devastating”, “fear”, “end of an era”. For many…
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Should we decide by lottery who gets a medical treatment first?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Philip Clarke, Professor of Health Economics, University of Oxford Belish/Shutterstock.com For decades, ethicists have argued that lotteries could be the fairest way to decide who gets life-saving treatment when there isn’t enough to go around. Yet our research suggests that most people would rather leave the…
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Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses uses critical dystopia to challenge us to build a better future
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Blanka Grzegorczyk, Senior Teaching Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge; Manchester Metropolitan University Between 2013 and 2015, Malorie Blackman was Britain’s first black children’s laureate. Her young adult series Noughts and Crosses (2001-21) at once challenges and plays with the prevailing racial ordering of western…
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What could burst the AI bubble?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Whittle, University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford Tada Images/Shutterstock Some of the world’s biggest tech firms have soared in value over the last year. As AI evolves at pace, there are hopes that it will improve lives in ways that…
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AI, drone ships and new sensors could leave submarines with few places to hide in the ocean
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Stupples, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research, City St George’s, University of London A US Virginia-class attack submarine during sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. US Navy courtesy of General Dynamics Electric Boat For over a century, the ocean…
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Gaza ceasefire and Donald Trump’s ‘dead cat diplomacy’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation This newsletter was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. There were emotional scenes in both…
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Weight loss drug stigma shows society still holds negative attitudes towards body weight and obesity
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Beverley O’Hara, Lecturer in Nutrition, Leeds Beckett University Stigmatising the use of weight loss drugs is just a new form of ‘fatphobia.’ zimmytws/ Shutterstock Since Wegovy received approval as a weight loss treatment in 2021, there has been huge demand for GLP-1 drugs. These drugs reduce…
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The evolution of male mental health in television
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christina Wilkins, Lecturer in Film and Creative Writing, University of Birmingham Shows about men still dominate our television screens. But the stories being told are starting to change, with more room for vulnerability and portrayals of male mental illness. These changes include explicit mentions of diagnostic…