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Assisted Suicide
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The BMA recommends safeguards for Assisted SuicideThe British Medical Association (BMA) has said that there needs to be more safeguards on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, if passed.
Assisted Suicide
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Children using AI more for homework according to parentsA new report by the Parent Voice Project has found a significant increase in the number of parents suspecting that their children are using AI tools to complete their homework.
Artificial Intelligence
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AI could reduce demand for office space
Artificial Intelligence
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Two-fifths of people support increasing slot machine taxesResearch by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) shows that 43% of UK adults think that the government should increase taxes on slot machines in betting shops.
Gambling
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Govt publishes draft conversion practices Bill
Freedom of Speech
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Transgender prisoners sent to jails according to biological sexThe Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has withdrawn its transgender policy, first implemented in 2014, which permitted transgender prisoners to be housed in a prison aligned with their gender identity, rather than their…
Transgender
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Child under 12 euthanised in the NetherlandsA child under the age of twelve, who was seriously ill, has been euthanised in the Netherlands, in the first case of its kind since the law was changed two years ago.
Assisted Suicide
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Intelligence agencies warn that AI is months away from causing havocThe ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US have warned that powerful artificial intelligence models are ‘months away’ from wreaking havoc in cyber attacks.
Artificial Intelligence
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Children as young as six on transgender waiting listNumbers published by The Telegraph following a Freedom of Information request show that children as young as six-years-old are on the waiting list for NHS gender care.
Transgender
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ChatGPT used to create violent and sexualised imagesResearchers have used OpenAI’s artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT to create sexualised images and scenes of graphic violence. This adds the platform to a list of other AI tools, such as xAI’s Grok,…
Artificial Intelligence
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Anti-Slavery Commissioner calls for inquiry into exploitation on OnlyFansThe UK’s Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Eleanor Lyons, has called for a public inquiry into potential ‘exploitation’ of women on the online platform OnlyFans, after a BBC investigation exposed threatening and exploitative behaviour.
Sexual Exploitation
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MPs call for single-sex space guidance to be blockedA number of MPs, including many from the Labour Party, have signed a Commons motion calling for a block on the guidance recently issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)…
Transgender