Our February 2025 round-up, contains the latest in artificial intelligence papers, articles, policies and vendor announcements.
Policy, regulation & ethical considerations
Digital Inclusion Action Plan: First Steps published Feb 25, this plan for digital inclusion, includes a call for evidence.
EU moves towards strategy for using AI in science. Artificial intelligence has “unprecedented potential” to strengthen research and innovation, says draft text.
Europe bans emotion-tracking artificial intelligence under landmark AI rules. EU AI Act aims to protect people from AI-based discrimination, harassment and manipulation,
Government’s proposed ‘opt-out’ model for training AI goes against the spirit of copyright law, asserts new report from Cambridge researchers. Researchers’ say there’s no proof copyright reform will boost investment.
Shared-Posthuman Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation. The report looks at how GenAI tools are changing creativity, authorship and ownership and there are ethical/legal challenges that need attention.
AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking. The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplore,
Research & Innovation
International AI Safety Report – AI Action summit publication Jan 25 Focuses on global safety standards and practices in AI.
Imperial develops AI ‘co-scientist’ to prevent research ‘dead ends’. Academics say AI system that can work alongside people may be a “game-changer”
Education
Generative AI in higher education: A global perspective of institutional adoption policies and guidelines. This paper explores the responsible adoption of generative AI in higher education. It proposes a “points to consider” approach that aligns with the goals, values, and structural features of higher education.
Scottish teachers call for overhaul of school assessments due to growing use of AI, Focus group research was carried out for the Scottish Qualifications Authority
2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study: Into the Digital AI Divide. This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education,
Students
HEPI Student Generative AI Survey 2025
An insider’s guide to how students use GenAI tools – There’s no doubt students are using GenAI in their assignments – but how? Miriam Wun and Nah Yong En talked to students to find out
Poe: How much AI is too much? A self-review tool for students to evaluate if they’ve used too much AI.
Environmental sustainability
Coalition for Sustainable AI. An international community of stakeholders to advance concrete initiatives for making Artificial Intelligence beneficial to our environmental goals.
AI Energy Score Leaderboard – a Hugging Face Space by AIEnergyScore. a standardised framework to measure and compare the energy consumption of AI models.
Foundations for environmentally sustainable AI. A new report from the NEPC highlighting foundational steps and key actions to minimise risks to the environment, people, and the economy.
ChatGPT vs. DeepSeek: which AI model Is more sustainable? How do the environmental credentials of ChatGPT and DeepSeek compare?
Vendor news
Google
AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry. Our AI system surpasses the state-of-the-art approach for geometry problems, advancing AI reasoning in mathematics,
OpenAI tries to ‘uncensor’ ChatGPT OpenAI is changing how it trains AI models to explicitly embrace “intellectual freedom … no matter how challenging or controversial a topic may be,”
Introducing deep research | OpenAI. An agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you. Available to Pro users today, Plus and Team next.,
Anthropic signs MOU with UK Government to explore how AI can transform UK public services \ Anthropic. Announcing a Memorandum of Understanding between Anthropic and the UK Government.
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