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Presents a public value framework to appraise GOV.UK One Login, arguing standard cost–benefit analysis poorly captures digital public infrastructure value and demonstrating how broader appraisal tools reveal different benefits and trade-offs.
Men and women now use AI chatbots at similar overall rates, but men report more frequent use while women express greater scepticism about AI’s impact on their lives.
Argues that gene‑edited ‘designer babies’ remain illegal but scientific advances—such as precise embryo edits reported by Columbia researchers—mean commercial interest is rising and policy choices on traits, costs and ethics are imminent.
Pew’s survey research shows most online communities are not centred on politics, and a majority of members say political discussion should generally be kept out of the communities they visit most.
Discusses digital public infrastructure (DPI) as shared government foundations intended to reduce duplication, improve services and fiscal outcomes, and notes difficulties in getting DPI systems started and assessing successes and failures where they operate.
About half of US adults report never using chatbots; non-users most commonly cite disinterest, privacy worries and concerns about accuracy as the main reasons for avoiding them.
Most Americans discuss news privately online (via messaging or private groups), while only about a quarter publish news-related posts publicly on social platforms, according to Pew’s analysis of online news engagement behaviours.
A Pew-Knight Initiative survey finds about one in three US adults have ever left an online community, based on data from the American Trends Panel conducted in May; the release explores motivations and prevalence of departures.
Global public‑opinion polling finds widespread concern that social media harms democracy by spreading rumours; accompanying survey highlights anxieties about AI, job losses, and inequality in some countries.
Argues transatlantic supersonic passenger travel could return in the early–mid 2030s, driven by Boom’s Overture (64–80 premium seats). Notes delivery risks, engine costs of several billion and the firm shifting to turbine work to fund development.
About 38–39% of US adults belong to an online community such as Facebook groups, gaming communities or Reddit fandom forums, which function as virtual ‘third spaces’ for social connection and shared interest.
The methodology describes building a custom architecture for synthetic surveys and comparing AI-generated ‘silicon sample’ responses to three American Trends Panel waves (185, 190, 192), replicating those human-administered benchmark surveys.
Argues for a compulsory, minimum AI literacy requirement for all university students so they can both use and critically evaluate AI, rather than leaving such skills to optional workshops.
Argues that the civil service must decide how far to replace or augment human officials with AI systems, discussing trade-offs between automation, accountability and maintaining human judgement in government functions.
Survey experiments using Opus 4.6 and GPT‑5.1 produced markedly different synthetic public‑opinion results, with neither model’s output matching actual human survey benchmarks, highlighting model-dependent distortions in AI polling.
Argues that measured productivity understates AI’s economic payoff because GDP and productivity metrics miss much “free” digital output; investment and equity valuations show an AI boom, but commentators Torsten Slok, Hal Varian and Robert Solow note the productivity payoff remains largely a forecast.
Digital twin synthetic surveys performed poorly at estimating public sentiment overall and were especially error‑prone for some subgroups, notably Republicans and Black adults, calling into question AI stand‑ins for human survey‑takers.
Global polling by Pew finds 64% of Americans in 2026 say social media harms democracy, with public attitudes in many other countries becoming markedly more negative compared with earlier years.
Synthetic survey responses did not match real public opinion on timely early‑2026 topics, showing large errors on presidential approval and attitudes toward data centres, indicating digital twins poorly capture current public mood on topical questions.
Argues for a UK national open‑source intelligence centre to set standards and coordinate government analysis, complementing the new information defence centre aimed at hostile state threats.
Globally, growing majorities say social media harms democracy by fostering manipulation and division, even as many also report it informs people and gives individuals a political voice, according to Pew Research Center’s global polling analysis.
Synthetic poll respondents were likelier than humans to converge on a single answer or skip response options, indicating reduced diversity and response variability in AI‑generated survey data versus human respondents.
Synthetic samples tended to overstate differences between demographic groups and presented some answers as nearly universal, implying digital twin approaches can distort subgroup estimates and population distributions.
Stablecoins are emerging as important payments infrastructure, but current policy approaches still rely on financial crime frameworks designed for traditional finance, leaving gaps in how to govern their specific risks to payments and financial integrity.
A national Australian survey finds around 80% of adults back restricting children’s access to social media, including 51% who strongly support such limits.
An Adam Smith Institute piece argues that major societal shocks often arise when existing technologies cross cost or capability thresholds, citing Viagra, GLP‑1 drugs and large language models as examples of unforeseen widespread effects.
AI‑generated survey respondents were much less likely than humans to choose “not sure” and far less likely to give factually incorrect answers, suggesting synthetic respondents express higher certainty and apparent factual knowledge.
Global data on social media platform use shows Facebook typically remains the most-used platform worldwide, followed by Instagram, with lower overall penetration for TikTok, X and Snapchat.
A Resolution Foundation blog reflecting on party conference season and recent research/events, with a lighter piece referencing ‘Swedish spouses’ and AI in therapy—mixing commentary and topical policy discussion from the think tank.
Eamonn Butler described launching an Adam Smith graphic novel, explaining he used a Hollywood-style script and AI tool Grok to generate graphics, iterating from flawed outputs to produce usable illustrations at the Mont Pelerin Society congress.