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Some of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will gather in �������������Ī this week to look at everything from the influence of science fiction on our dreams of the future, to ‘trust in the age of intelligent machines’.

James Williams, a 35-year-old doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University, has been announced as the inaugural winner of the $100,000 Nine Dots Prize at an awards ceremony at the British Library yesterday evening.

A company in Silicon Valley claims to be developing a "whole brain interface” for communicating wirelessly with the world. 
Christopher Markou from the Faculty of Law isn't overly keen...   

Artificial intelligence has the power to eradicate poverty and disease or hasten the end of human civilisation as we know it – according to a speech delivered by Professor Stephen Hawking this evening.

Andy Martin (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) discusses existentialism and the EU referendum.

An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after being ‘reconstructed’ by a �������������Ī researcher and a world-class performer of medieval music

The �������������Ī is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence. 

In 1879, a young Indian boy arrived in England from Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, sent by his father to receive a British education. Aurobindo Ghosh showed enormous promise and would go on to receive a scholarship to study classics at King’s College, �������������Ī.

A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have come together to propose a new centre at �������������Ī to address developments in human technologies that might pose “extinction-level” risks to our species, from biotechnology to artificial intelligence.

From the elixirs of legend to transmutation of base metals into gold, medieval medical practice and social mobility were steeped in alchemy.