Food systems are increasingly disrupted by climate disasters, while also being a major contributor to climate change. World leaders at COP28 are vowing to do something about it.
Many educators say they are worried about being unable to keep up with advances in AI.
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A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
Universities are ideal spaces to forge co-operation across research fields, an imperative of developing responsible AI.
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Learning about Generative AI should include supporting collaborative interdisciplinary research and writing ethical prompts to help discover what it can do.
An artist’s impression of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, the largest of its kind in the world.
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Canada’s partnership in the world’s largest radio telescope, located in South Africa and Australia, creates new opportunities for research, but the benefits go beyond astronomy.
Policies that foster diversity, equity and inclusion have been shown to have many positive operational impacts − including leading to more worker engagement.
Creativity involves generating something new – a product or solution that didn’t previously exist.
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Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
If people were dropped into a new situation tomorrow, how would they choose to govern themselves?
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The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially.
Between 2012 and 2021, funding to U.S. tech startups jumped to $344 billion.
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Traditional businesses operate with an established solution to a known problem. Startups focus on a product or service no one else provides.
Making publicly-funded research immediately available for free would mean we all have access to information that could help us understand the world around us.
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In the marketplace of ideas, for an app or product to be considered successful, it must be widely adopted for it to represent an innovation.
Giving innovators the right tools and guidance can set a new path for responsible health innovation for products from concept to disposal.
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New health technologies raise complex economic, social, environmental and safety concerns. Just as greenwashing tarnished sustainability efforts, ‘responsibility washing’ threatens health innovation.
In a business context, ‘open innovation’ means going beyond a company’s internal knowledge and capabilities.
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Innovators and businesses can use social media in different ways to drive learning across spheres and interest groups, and ultimately to foster innovation.
Without innovation in all five building phases, the industry won’t have the capacity to meet market demands or to deliver the social and affordable housing the government is promising.
Entrepreneurship flourishes when individuals in a society possess higher levels of well-being, adaptability, self-control and sociability.
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A recent study found that offering workers a choice of what type of reward they would like for offering good suggestions increased the volume of submissions and their creativity too.
Some Luddites simply want to press ‘pause’ on the uninhibited march of technological progress.
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Despite the association of ‘Luddite’ with a naïve rejection of technology, the term and its origins are far richer and more complex than you might think.