KEY INITIATIVE 1 PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING Interrogating the power relationships between digital technologies, society and our planet Do we fully understand how digital technologies are changing our society? Through our work, we are developing innovative ways of enhancing public understanding of digital technologies and its societal effects. We are critically examining both the idea that technology is the answer to society’s thorniest problems and the common, but often misleading narratives that have developed about AI, machine-learning, and other emerging technologies. We are increasing journalistic capacity to critically interrogate tech platforms — including their business models, data protection and handling, political lobbying and exploitation of capabilities of the technology. Exposing and challenging opaque power Can society’s big questions be answered by big tech? Find out more about our work on Public Understanding Your browser does not support the video tag. READ MORE View latest Press Releases Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy to co-chair TUC Taskforce on AI and Employment Academic Publications Rethinking affordances for human-machine communication Blog Clear-Eyed AI for the Gloomy Guy: Vote for our SXSW PanelPicker 2024 Reports Written evidence submitted to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) KEY INITIATIVES PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING Interrogating the power relationships between digital technologies, society and our planet ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES Protecting the environment WORK Asserting democratic control over tech monopolies TRUST Reclaiming the internet for civil society THE TEAM Situated within CRASSH (University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences), we are bringing together the brightest minds in academic research to make much-needed change to our relationship with digital technologies. Meet our team. Meet the team