Predicting the social and behavioural impact of future technologies before they are achieved would enable us to guide their development and regulation before these impacts get entrenched.

“Magic’s just science that we don’t understand” said Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, English science fiction writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television series host. And why should we ...

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers ...

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If you are glued to the Olympic coverage as I am, you are seeing the commercial from Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly's advertisement uses the scientific method as a narrative frame, drawing a parallel ...

Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted ...

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It was a question Dr. Gideon Lack asked often, when giving lectures to fellow allergists and pediatricians on the topic of food allergies: How many doctors in the room had a patient allergic to ...

The political and social sciences have quickly adopted generative artificial intelligence (AI) into virtually every aspect of the research process. Large language models (LLMs) are used for idea and ...