At first blush, inequality and artificial intelligence (AI) don’t see to have much in common, but scratch the surface and they begin to look like twins separated at birth. Artificial intelligence is the creation of software that can improve itself, to the point where it might enable machines to become sufficiently human-like for us to …
A few weeks ago the Leader of Cambridge City Council, Lewis Herbert, wrote an article for the Cambridge Independent on how Cambridge University can help to tackle inequality in the city. Find below the full text of the article which Cambridge Commons believes is a positive, practical message on how Cambridge University can help to …
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The CPIER Final Report was published in September by the Cambridge and Peterborough Independent Economic Commission, with some local publicity. It has been long awaited, and the Cambridge Commons made some efforts to submit its views to the report. The final report is 136 pages long, and this comment is based on a quick analysis …
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Universal credit began its roll out in Cambridge on 17th October, gradually to start off with, just new claims or people whose circumstances change. The full-scale transfer of all those on the relevant unemployment and in work benefits will come later. A few days later the government used their autumn budget to declare the beginning …