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From the climate crisis to personalised medicine, we are applying AI to the world’s major challenges, exploring its ethical dimensions and collaborating with industry to ensure that our research has the greatest impact.

Left to right: Nicola Ayton, Deputy Chief Executive of Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH), Feryal Clark MP, Minister for AI and Digital Government, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Deborah Prentice

Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer

13 January 2025

The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan.  

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‘AI scientist’ suggests combinations of widely available non-cancer drugs can kill cancer cells

04 Jun 2025

An ‘AI scientist’, working in collaboration with human scientists, has found that combinations of cheap and safe drugs – used to treat conditions...

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Gina Neff

Opinion: Whether democracy can survive AI will depend on us

14 Apr 2025

What is the best framework for the global governance of AI? How do we respond to tech companies who argue against regulation? Is our current pace of...

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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 Apr 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and...

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Turbocharging the race to protect nature and climate with AI

06 Apr 2025

Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.

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Anil Madhavapeddy

Opinion: AI can help us heal the planet

04 Apr 2025

AI can do in seconds what might take a team of experts a year. This is why we must harness it to reverse the damage we’ve done to the planet. Anil...

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Michael Barrett

Opinion: We must balance the risks and benefits of AI

04 Apr 2025

AI will only be as good – or as bad – as the information fed into it, so we need to fix any bias that perpetuates inequality and marginalisation...

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Jill Duffy

Opinion: AI belongs in classrooms

04 Apr 2025

AI in education has transformative potential for students, teachers and schools but only if we harness it in the right way – by keeping people at the...

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Anna Korhonen

Opinion: Humans should be at the heart of AI

03 Apr 2025

With the right development and application, AI could become a transformative force for good. What's missing in current technologies is human insight...

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10 Cambridge AI spinouts

02 Apr 2025

Meet 10 Cambridge spinouts, all hoping to harness the potential of AI for the good of the planet and its people.

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Neil Lawrence and Jess Montgomery

Opinion: Universities play a vital role in the future of AI

02 Apr 2025

Universities can bridge the gap between those who develop AI systems and those who will use and be affected by them. We must step up to deliver this...

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Richard Turner

Opinion: AI can democratise weather forecasting

01 Apr 2025

AI will give us the next leap forward in forecasting the weather, says Richard Turner, and make it available to all countries, not just those with...

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AI is as good as pathologists at diagnosing coeliac disease, study finds

27 Mar 2025

A machine learning algorithm developed by Cambridge scientists was able to correctly identify in 97 cases out of 100 whether or not an individual had...

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