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AI boosts productivity by the equivalent of one workday per week, new report finds

The report from The Inclusion Initiative revealed that professionals using AI save an average of 7.5 hours per week.
News
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The AI-generated content that caused real world violence in the UK

Beatriz Lopez Buarque explores how social media and AI-generated content caused civil unrest
Video thumbnail reading ''How fake AI images sparked riots''

Why refugee return is not the solution to displacement crises

Coffee-break research with Dr Stephanie Schwartz, 1-1.30pm
11Nov
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AI research at LSE

Understanding emerging AI technologies and their societal, economic, and political ramifications through short films, blogs, articles and events
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Meet LSE's early career researchers

Ravneet Dhingra Bawa is researching decision making in digital hyperchoice.
Ravneet Dhingra Bawa

Bonds of freedom: the long fight beyond abolition

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Dr Jake Subryan Richards
Race equity
Two enslaved people holding a baby

Seeing animals differently: the science and ethics of sentience

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Professor Jonathan Birch
Politics
An octopus sitting on the sea bed

Why we need to talk about wealth if we want to address poverty

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Dr Sarah Kerr
Economics
Urban high street with skyscrapers in the background

AI and the stock market: are algorithmic trades creating new risks?

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Maximilian Goehmann
AI and tech
Graphic with stock market numbers and the text "error on execution"

The struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East

Tuesday 23 September 2025 · Professor Fawaz A Gerges
Politics
Arab Spring protests and Arab leaders

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