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📌 Join the DSI!
We are recruiting for a Project Administrator to support the delivery of a flagship event dedicated to AI and the social sciences.
📆 Role closing date: Sunday 11 January 2026
▶️ Find out more and apply: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1…
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🚩@AlphaGeo is partnering with @LSEnews Global School of Sustainability & DSI to power #Sustainability research via AI-driven climate data.
AlphaGeo CEO & founder, @LSEalumni @paragkhanna joins DSI as Visiting Senior Fellow to lend expertise & insight
🔗lse.ac.uk/dsi/news/2025/alph…
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📢 Call for Proposals: How is AI reshaping work and the economy?
Would you like to present your data-driven research and policy proposals to policymakers at the LSE / Anthropic Economic Futures Symposium this November❓
Find out more🔻 lse.ac.uk/DSI/news/2025/lse-…
Deadline: 12 Sept
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🚩New article
A new @LabourList piece by DSI Senior Advisers Dr @CosDorobantu and Professor @HelenMargetts sets out three major opportunities of AI-driven innovation to the public sector.
Read the article: labourlist.org/2025/08/artif…
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🚨 Call for proposals 🚨
DSI & @AnthropicAI are hosting a London Economic Futures Symposium this November to explore #AI’s impact on jobs, productivity & growth.
Submit your research or policy idea by 12 September to present at the @LSEnews symposium.
🔗lse.ac.uk/dsi/news/2025/lse-…
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We're thrilled that Jon Cardoso-Silva, Associate Professor (Education) at the DSI, has been awarded one of LSE's 10 inaugural AI & Education Fellowships.
Six of the other 10 places were awarded to DSI Affiliates, with fellows piloting AI in teaching across LSE. Congrats to all!
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Join us at the #LSEFestival this weekend for Big Data for Public Good – a panel on transforming government services with better data and analysis. 🗓️ Saturday 21 June 🕔5.00pm – 6.00pm 📍 In person and online 🔽 lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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We’re halfway through the #LSEFestival: Visions for the Future! 🌟 Join @GoogleDeepMind COO Lila Ibrahim and DSI Senior Advisor Cosmina Dorobantu this Friday to explore the transformative potential of #AI.
🗓️Friday 20 June 🕡12:00pm - 1:00pm💻lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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DSI Affiliate Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan (@MediaLSE) explores hidden surveillance in Amazon warehouses and its impact on worker autonomy and dignity.
Her research offers a powerful look at tech, accountability, and the future of work.
Watch now: piped.video/watch?v=x-7E8Kc_…
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As #AI drives a fourth industrial revolution, how do we ensure progress is equitable, inclusive and sustainable? Join us and @The_IGC at #LSEFestival for Data for Development.
🗓️Thurs 17 June | 🕐 1–2pm | 📍In-person & online 🔗 Register: lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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Behind the shiny surface of #AI lie vast data centres, human labour, and cheap energy. @MediaLSE's Bingchun Meng explores the hidden infrastructure powering AI – from China’s data centre workers to global tech supply chains. #ResearchForTheWorld
Read: lse.ac.uk/research/research-…
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#AI isn't just another digital tool – it's a shift on the scale of electricity.
Last week, DSI Vising Professor Mairéad Pratschke spoke at #LSEEdSymp2025 (@EdenLSE) on designing AI-era learning.
Watch the talk: piped.video/a-nA2v459Nk
#GenAI #Claude
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The path of #AI is a societal question. How can we guide it to do the most good? Join Lila Ibrahim, COO of Google DeepMind, and Cosmina Dorobantu, Senior Advisor to the DSI, to discuss AI's transformative potential.
🗓️Friday 20 June 🕡12:00pm - 1:00pm💻lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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An #AI tool might lack bedside manner, but it can help NHS staff spend more time with patients. Laura Gilbert of @LSEPublicPolicy explores how #ArtificialIntelligence could reduce A&E wait times across the UK.
Watch: piped.video/watch?v=UO5eeaH4…
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DSI #PhDAffiliate Chuyao Wang’s new co-authored paper examines how conspiracy theories are governed on Chinese social media, showing how governments spread, allow, or argue against conspiracy theories. Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s41599-0…
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Join us for AI Adventures with ChatGPT at the LSE Festival Family Day 🎉
Saturday 21 June | 10 am–2 pm
Designed for young people aged 8–16, activities will allow them to experiment with AI tools and discover their power and possibilities! lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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Does AI = job losses? Not necessarily.
#DSIAffiliate Tomislav Karačić (@LSEManagement) studied a seed-sorting business where humans and machines teamed up – with powerful results.
Read his article in the latest #LSEResearchForTheWorld: lse.ac.uk/research/research-…
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Join us for our LSE Festival panel: Big data for public good
🗓️ Saturday 21 June | 5–6 pm
Experts discuss how to unlock the potential of UK government data for effective, fair policies.
lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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How far should we trust the voice of AI?
As Siri, Alexa and others become part of everyday life, how do their voices shape our trust? #DSIAffiliate @anuschkaschmitt (@LSEManagement) explores this in the latest #LSEResearchForTheWorld.
Read more: lse.ac.uk/research/research-…
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How could #AI work for public good?
In Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us (@mitpress) recent DSI speaker @GaryMarcus lays out the risks & calls for democratic oversight.
Read the M. Kerem Coban review for @LSEReviewBooks:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…
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Join us for the Data for Development panel on Thursday 17 June | 1–2 pm, part of the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future.
Explore how data can drive equitable, sustainable progress in global development.
lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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🌟 June at DSI: Lectures, panels, exhibitions, and family fun! Speakers include Conrad Wolfram, Lila Ibrahim, Laura Gilbert, and more.
Explore what’s coming up this month: lse.ac.uk/DSI/Events/upcomin…
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How can we ensure emerging technologies are inclusive?
Watch #DSIAffiliate Alison Powell as she discusses how digital innovation can serve diverse communities equitably.👇
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🌟 DSI May Highlights:
📘 Reid Hoffman at LSE on his new book: piped.video/F6YAv0u9Y44
🧠 Data & Democracy talk: piped.video/tLIV4xglf3c
🤖 AI for Climate at Kings AI Festival: Turning policy data into impact: kcl.ac.uk/events/building-th…
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This month Reid Hoffman – Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Inflection AI, and Manas AI, and Partner at Greylock – visited @LSEnews to discuss his new book, "Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future".
Watch: piped.video/watch?v=F6YAv0u9…
@LSEPublicPolicy
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🎟️ Tickets are now live for this year’s #LSEFestival: Visions for the Future! Join us 16–21 June at LSE (on campus or online) for a week of talks, panels & workshops on #AI, data, democracy & more.
👁️ Programme: lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
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Last week, DSI & @MediaLSE hosted a talk on data science's role in public interest - from access to info to democracy. Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=tLIV4xgl…
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📢 Tonight at @LSEnews Reid Hoffman joins @LSEPublicPolicy's Andrés Velasco to discuss his book "Superagency: what could possibly go right with our AI future" & the inclusive, adaptive future of #AI.
🗓️ TODAY | 🕕 6–7:15pm | Last few in-person spots 👉 lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-p…
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The Spring Term programme for @LSEpublicevents is now live‼️
There are lots of interesting free events with expert speakers including several around the topic of #AI and #Data.
Explore the full programme⤵️
lse.ac.uk/events/search-even…
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Get your tickets NOW to hear @GaryMarcus, cognitive scientist and serial entrepreneur, talk about whether Generative #AI is morally and technically inadequate.
🗓️27 March, 7.00- 8.30pm
📌LSE (Ticket required)
More info🔻
lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/03/202…
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Is Generative AI morally and technically inadequate?
@GaryMarcus, cognitive scientist and serial entrepreneur, talks about how AI can be used to improve society, businesses, and even ourselves.
🗓️27 March, 7- 8.30pm
🎟️LSE (Free ticket required)
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lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/03/202…
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Will #AI and automation cause huge unemployment? Prof Judy Wajcman of @LSEsociology seeks to uncover the truth behind the hype and separate artificial intelligence myths from reality.
Watch the short film now🔻
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Can AI understand distress?
Hear Elizabeth Stokoe from @LSE_PBS talk about the hidden signals in emergency calls and how much AI has improved in its ability to spot them.
Watch now👇
(with a link to a research paper about conversation analysis)
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📢Call for papers📢
We are cohosting a two-day workshop with @LSEMethodology on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" organised by Daniel de Kadt and Audrey Alejandro.
✳️Submit 250-word abstract by 26 March
Learn more➡️ lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...
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Did you know that any LSE undergraduate in any year can choose one of our Data Science Modules no matter what course you are studying❓
Find out more about and learn how data science can equip you with valuable new research skills‼
👉 lse.ac.uk/DSI/study/undergra…
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Can a feminist perspective help guide us towards more ethical digital futures?
Join us to hear @DrEleanorDrage talk to @asiyaislam about how feminism brings the #EU's #AI Act to life.
📅11 March
🕡6.30–8.00pm
📌Hybrid
@LSEGenderTweet
More👇lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/03/202…
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Join us for our 1st event of 2025. Discussing his new book @d_spiegel will explain 3️⃣ types of luck & talk about how we can put numbers on our ignorance, then measure how good those numbers are.
📅22 Jan
🕡6.30–7.30pm
📌Hybrid
@LSEStatistics
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Our mission is to convene, catalyse and communicate LSE activity in data science and AI.
To keep up to date with what is happening in this field across #LSE, sign up to receive our monthly newsletter🔻
lse.us2.list-manage.com/subs…
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The @LSEImpactBlog is a platform for understanding and increasing the #impact of academic research. There are regular posts about the effects, both +ve & -ve, that #AI & data science are having in this area.
Explore their "AI, Data and Society" blogs🔻
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci…
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In May we hosted our annual DSI Squared symposium with @ImperialDSI asking how generative AI can be made to work well & exploring the need to tackle effectiveness, safety & integrity?
Visit our symposium playlist to hear the discussions▶
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#LSEDSI2024
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LSE encourages the responsible and ethical use of Generative AI to support and enhance research. During 2024 Lee Mager from @LSEGeography put together an extensive resource offering AI research guidance.
Explore this amazing resource🔽
lse.ac.uk/DSI/AI/AI-Research
#LSEDSI2024
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✳Holiday watching✳
In 2024 public events organised by departments across #LSE explored all nature of topics around data science & AI & discussed how new technology is changing the world in which we live.
Explore 2024's events playlist🔻
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#LSEDSI2024
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In April2️⃣undergraduate student, Terry Zhou & Nikolai Semikhatov, who both took the DSI's module "Data Science for Social Scientists", presented their research on parliamentary rebellion at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research 2024 (hosted at @LSEnews).
#LSEDSI2024
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November saw the launch of "AI and Data Science in Public Policy", a special issue of the LSE Public Policy Review from @LSEPRess and @LSEPublicPolicy exploring the opportunities and risks of integrating AI into public policy.
#LSEDSI2024
Read now👇
ppr.lse.ac.uk/12/volume/3/is…
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How students actually use AI❓
To improve courses, educators must try to answer this question. Our GENIAL research does just that!
Find out more about the project & learn how its findings can be integrated into teaching & assessment plans⬇
lse.ac.uk/DSI/Research/Proje…
#LSEDSI2024
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In 2024 we convened data scientist from industry for 5️⃣ fantastic #CareersinDataScience events to help undergrad & postgrad students from across @LSENews to navigate their next steps into the world of work.
Find out about our student events
lse.ac.uk/DSI/Events/student…
#LSEDSI2024
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This year the research of DSI Affiliates has been recognised with significant awards🔻
🔴UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
🔴Philip Leverhulme Prize 2024
🔴European Research Council Consolidator Grant
Find out more🔻
lse.ac.uk/DSI/Research
#LSEDSI2024
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Join us for our first two public events of 2025.
David Spiegelhalter launches his new book, an essential guide to navigating uncertainty.
Co-author Craig Mundie explains how his new book outlines a strategy for navigating the age of AI.
Find out more👇
lse.ac.uk/DSI/Events/upcomin…
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Missed our event last night launching "Feeding the machine: the hidden human labour powering AI"?
Watch it now on YouTube and hear some of the human stories from the precarious global workforce that make #AI possible.
piped.video/live/KMavy0u4ZsY
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