Chatbots in Healthcare
A healthcare chatbot sits at an unusually sharp intersection: the upside of automation (availability at 3am, no waiting room, consistent triage questions asked every time) meets the downside of getting it wrong in a…
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Ethical, legal, and governance issues in modern AI systems.
AI on Health and Genomic Data: The Law and Ethics of Biomedical Research
Chatbots in Healthcare covers what happens once an AI system is deployed to patients. Here we look at the stage before that: training and validating a model on genomic, proteomic, electronic-health-record, or…
Legal Framework in Computing
Software does not run in a legal vacuum. Every system that stores a name, processes a payment, or crosses a border engages a web of legislation whose penalties are measured in percentages of global turnover — and, for…
AI Governance: Evaluation, Regulation, and the Gaps Between Them
AI Ethics asks what an AI system should be permitted to do. Governance asks a narrower, more mechanical question: who actually has the power to check that it isn't doing something else, and what happens if it is? A…
Project Marking as BDD
Assessment rubrics for substantial software projects tend to read like the kind of requirement Behaviour-Driven Development was invented to fix: plausible-sounding prose that two different readers can honestly disagree…
When Insiders Put a Number on Extinction: AI Risk, Fiction's Long Head Start, and the Bill Sitting in the Data Centre
13 September 2026
Who Buys What the Machines Make? AI, Robotics, Cheap Energy, and the Case for an Income Floor
15 September 2026
Democracy and the AI Build-Out: Testing a Political-Economy Argument
28 September 2026
Who Keeps Teaching After You Leave? Moral Rights, Lecture Capture, and the AI Cloning Risk
Universities are moving toward mandatory, opt-out lecture capture at the same moment generative AI has made a convincing synthetic voice and face cheap to produce from a few hours of footage. Put those two trends…
Four Ordinary Clauses, One Bad Combination: How University IP Contracts Close Every Exit
No single clause in a university's IP and employment terms is unusual on its own. Reverse licences, carve-outs for the "underlying" intellectual property in a scholarly work, power-of-attorney provisions, and a Code of…
When the AI Becomes the IDE: Mathematics, Programming, and the Economics of Fulfilling Work
11 October 2026
What Happens When an AI Agent Gets a Wallet? Web 4.0 and the Automaton
14 October 2026