Archive for September 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are known to confidently conjure up fake citations. When the company OpenAI released GPT-5, a suite of large language models (LLMs), last month, it said it had reduced the frequency of fake citations and other kinds of ‘hallucination’, as well as ‘deceptions’, whereby an AI claims to have performed a task it hasn’t. With GPT-5, OpenAI… is bucking an industry-wide trend, because newer AI models designed to mimic human reasoning tend to generate more hallucinations than do their predecessors. On a benchmark that tests a model’s ability to produce citation-based responses, GPT-5 beat its predecessors. But hallucinations remain inevitable, because of how LLMs function.

Move comes despite election manifesto promises from Keir Starmer to improve ‘access to learning’

A Honolulu program started during the pandemic was supposed to send teams including social workers alongside EMTs to 911 calls for non-violent incidents involving people who are homeless. Instead, the Crisis, Outreach, Response and Engagement program has no social workers on staff and even its backers say it has become more of a medical triage unit.

The right’s reflexive answers to any shooting — more patrols, militarized police, more guns, and less firearm regulation — are looking less like freedom and more like a death pact. Until conservatives reckon with this, the cycle will continue. The communities they lead will continue to suffer the highest rates of murder and suicide, and even their most venerated leaders will remain in the line of fire. In the end, America’s gun violence crisis is not a red or blue issue. Right now, however, red America is paying the steepest price. The hope is that acknowledging this truth could spur the kind of cross-partisan soul-searching and reform that has so far proved elusive.

The annual SSHRC Impact Awards recognize outstanding researchers and students in the social sciences and humanities for their exceptional SSHRC-funded work to generate valuable new insights, mobilize knowledge into societal applications, and conduct effective outreach activities.