It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
Assisted Suicide
Peter Ladd
Tom Kendall
Dan Wells
The latest data for the U.S. state of Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, shows that a record number of people received assisted suicide prescriptions last year. It also recorded the second-highest…
Assisted Suicide
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence platform who run the popular Claude chatbot, have consulted with leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches about AI's moral and spiritual development.
Artificial Intelligence
Pornography
Anthropic, the AI company behind the popular Claude chatbot, have announced their latest model, Claude Mythos Preview. However, despite lauding it as their most powerful model yet, they are withholding its release…
Artificial Intelligence
The Finnish Supreme Court has acquitted parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen over a Bible verse which she tweeted in 2019. However, on a separate charge, they found her guilty of “hate speech” in a…
Freedom of Speech
In two landmark trials in the United States, social media platforms have been found liable of causing harm to children. On Tuesday a court in New Mexico found Facebook’s parent company, Meta,…
Pornography
More than 70 MPs and Peers have written to the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to ask them to “hit pause” on the plans to decriminalise abortions…
Abortion
Girlguiding, who oversees girl guides groups in the UK, has said that transgender children must leave the organisation by September. This follows their announcement in December that it would no longer be…
Transgender
A new report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows that artificial intelligence generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) reached a record high last year with over 8,000 cases identified. The research…
Pornography
The House of Lords have voted to approve the details of the Crime and Policing Bill that will decriminalise abortion up to birth. Peers voted down amendments that would have removed the…
Abortion
Research by the domestic violence charity Refuge has found that artificial intelligence chatbots can aid abusers with stalking and harassing their victims, and with evading investigation by the police.
Artificial Intelligence