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On 11 March, we were pleased to host a great discussion sharing our latest research: Which AI harms & risks will mobilise the public to act?, a UK RCT with 3,467 participants which found environmental harms & bias and discrimination best mobilise public action on AI, while extinction risk resonates least.

A UK RCT with 3,467 participants found environmental harms & bias and discrimination best mobilise public action on AI, while extinction risk resonates least. Anger, temporal proximity, and concern for others drive willingness to act.

Join on webinar where we will share findings from our new study exploring which AI harms and risks are most likely to persuade people to act on their concerns. We test the effect of reading about different AI risk areas - from job displacement and disinformation to automated weapons and extinction risks - and measure their impact on people's concern about AI and their willingness to act on it.

Our latest research report, conducted for Project Slingshot, surveyed nearly 4,000 people across the UK and US to understand where public opinion stands on factory farming - and where the opportunities for advocates lie. The central finding: the more people know about what's really happening, the more they want it to stop. Here's what we found.

What we learned from asking 3,500 people how they feel about AI development.

We're currently running a large study testing which AI harms and risks are most likely to mobilise people to action. We believe that significant public involvement in shaping the direction of AI development is crucial in the current moment. AI is evolving and being widely integrated into systems of all kinds extremely fast, with little public...

2025 has been a remarkable year for activism around the world. From the No Kings protests in the United States, to mobilisations around Gaza, to the global wave of youth-led 'Gen Z' protests from Bangladesh to Kenya to Nepal, citizens have continued to take to the streets to demand change. Yet this activism unfolds against an increasingly challenging backdrop: rising authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and the systematic criminalisation of protest in countries that once

Introducing a new series of discussion papers on where the climate movement should focus next. Our first paper in this series examines an often neglected area: activism around extreme weather events.

We're excited to share findings from a new survey, conducted in collaboration with The Movements Trust with responses from 57 groups, offering a rare window into the lives of grassroots movements, in their own words: who they are, what drives them, what they’ve achieved, and the barriers they face.