Fighting modern slavery with survivor’s voices
I used to work at a safe house for survivors of human trafficking. A busy day included listening to the stories of ten or more people. Powerful and insightful stories. Stories that shed light on the modus operandi of the traffickers, and thus stories that could help fight the crimes of modern slavery and human […]
‘There’s Gold in them thar Hills’… or Asteroids: The Legality and Ethics of Space Mining
The era of commercial space mining is here. Minerals such as lanthanum, neodymium, and yttrium (it’s ok if you have to look them up) – which are all critical for our electronic gadgets – also exist in space. As portrayed in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up, companies are hungry to get digging. And with that comes a […]
Seventy years on, the great smog reminds us why air pollution matters
It was a cold winter’s day in London, and you couldn’t see ten feet in front of your face. Cars were reduced to a crawl. Pedestrians stepped out of the road and took the lives into their hands. The city came to a standstill. And 12,000 people died. The great smog of December 1952 is […]
Project Iron – Organised crime group mapping
At Trilateral Research we provide ethical AI solutions for tackling complex social problems in the public sector. In Project Iron, funded by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), we are conducting innovative research to develop explainable AI that can help combat organized crime (OC). The work will focus on three principal areas: graph network analysis, […]
Designing the (data)Hive: Principles-based decentralised architectures
Decentralised architectures and networks are slowly embedding themselves into the technological and societal landscape, empowered by communities of like-minded people who strive to alter the existing socio-economic order by leveraging peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies. In this article, we discuss one such initiative, Swarm, by drawing relations between its developed set of community-centred, bottom-up Fair Data Principles […]
How do leaders foster innovation?
When thinking of ways to change what we do, knowing exactly what we are aiming for is key. Your purpose needs to be clear, so that your team is motivated to make improvements towards that business goal, rather than simply streamlining what they already do. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it […]
Flying Emergency Class – The transport challenges of Search and Rescue drones
New technological advancements tend to be a powerful driver in establishing new or incrementally redefining traditional industries and fields. An interesting example of the latter is the fusion of conventional means and new technology in the field of Search and Rescue (SaR). Intrigued by this seamless interplay between first responders and new tech, Trilateral Research […]
E-learning and the Ethics of Robot Bullying
When considering Ethical Artificial Intelligence we want to hold machinery to account and to protect humans from the potential harmful impact of powerful machines. How transparent are the decisions that machines make? Can we identify the bias that comes from selective availability of data? Or from existing bias in the situations they are trained from? […]
Socio-economic impact assessments for enhanced decision-making
Socio-economic impact assessments (SEIAs) can help us to understand and assess how new and emerging technologies will evolve in society, their impacts on the economy and different social groups and the socio-economic uncertainties they bring. They can help put users and society in a better position to steer the development of new and emerging technologies […]
A survey of AI risk assessment methodologies
In recognition of both the increasing importance of AI in our digital society and the wide diversity of use cases, policymakers across the globe are seeking to better understand the risks that these new AI systems might pose to society. A growing consensus is emerging in favor of risk-based approaches to regulating the use of […]
