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Can We Still Tell What’s Real? Dr Carolina Scarton on Children, AI and Cognitive Warfare, Part Two (opens the original)
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A 14-year-old refuses to study a Van Gogh painting because they are convinced it was generated by artificial intelligence. Children challenge their teachers with incorrect answers from ChatGPT. Young boys disappear into the online manosphere, absorbing misogyny, conspiracy theories and the belief that figures such as Andrew Tate offer the answers adults cannot. This is no longer a future problem. In Part Two of The Digital Forge , David Richards MBE continues his conversation with Dr Carolina Sc
When Lies Became a Business. Dr Carolina Scarton on AI, Algorithms and the Price of Truth, Part One (opens the original)
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The algorithm did not decide to divide us. Someone built it to make money. In Part One of The Digital Forge , David Richards MBE sits down with Dr Carolina Scarton , Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing at the University of Sheffield, to examine how misinformation evolved from playground rumours into a global industry. The conversation begins far from Silicon Valley. Carolina grew up in a modest family in rural Brazil, where her parents placed education above everything else. Her journ
She Proved Them Wrong. Then She Changed the System. Pam Liversidge, Part Two (opens the original)
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In Part One, Pam Liversidge proved that women belonged in engineering. In Part Two, she changes the institutions that once excluded them. In 1997, Pam became the first female President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in its 150-year history. She did not treat the position as a ceremonial prize. She used it to challenge an organisation she believed had become too academic, too elitist and too distant from the practical engineers who founded it. Her Moving Forward programme opened the i
They Told Her Girls Don’t Do Engineering. Pam Liversidge Proved Them Wrong, Part One (opens the original)
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In 1967, Pam Liversidge walked into an engineering lecture at Aston University and found around 120 students. She was the only woman. For weeks, many of the men barely spoke to her. An Army recruiter had already dismissed her ambitions with five words: “Girls don’t do engineering.” Pam stayed. In Part One of The Digital Forge , David Richards MBE traces her journey from a practical, working-class family in Shropshire to the factory floors and boardrooms of British industry. Pam talks candidly ab
They Sacked Him at 57. Then Buckingham Palace Called. Doug Liversidge CBE, Part Two (opens the original)
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Doug Liversidge had transformed a struggling Sheffield engineering company into a £17 million business, taken it public and delivered a remarkable return for its shareholders. Then the company was sold. Three weeks later, he was told to leave. He was 57 years old and suddenly unemployed. That same evening, Buckingham Palace called. Prince Charles wanted to visit the factory within days. Doug agreed to return, put on what he calls his “marathon smile” and guide the Prince around the company that
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