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  • When AI Meets Faith: Forging Cultural Resilience in Uncertain Times

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    Angel Harper

    How will AI impact religious beliefs and cultural resilience? Generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a step-change in digital technology and is facilitating transformative change in contemporary cultures and approaches to knowledge and communication across the globe and across the world of faith. Led by Dr Adam James Fenton [linkedin.com] and the Co-Investigator Dr Chris Shannahan [linkedin.com], the SALIENT Hub [salient-hub.org] research…

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  • The Manufactory: Samuel Colt’s Three Years in London

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    Angel Harper

    By SALIENT co-investigator Michael A. Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bath I have finally read Priya Satia’s prize-winning history, Empire of Guns, which firmly connects Britain’s industrial revolution to the state’s demand for weapons. Showing how the military as much as markets drove industrial experimentation. It also includes a fascinating nineteenth-century manufacturing story with…

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  • Drones and the UK Strategic Defence Review 2025

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    Angel Harper

    written by SALIENT Academic Lead and Deputy Director of TAI Richard Kirkham and SALIENT co-investigator Prof Mike Lewis , University of Bath The 2025 Strategic Defence Review [1] (SDR) emphasised the integration of autonomous and semi-autonomous drone systems into the UK’s future force structure. References to “swarms”, “uncrewed targeting networks”, “Digital Targeting Web”, etc. underscored a vision of defence transformation by…

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