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How can regulators protect users from gamified investing in Canada?

How can employers be encouraged to advertise more jobs as flexible?

How can the public have a voice on how AI shapes their lives?

Platform-level interventions to reduce the spread of misinformation & hateful content online

In the wake of the UK’s recent riots, social media platforms are under fire for perpetuating misinformation, disinformation, and hateful content. This note outlines behavioural factors that point to the need for platform and system-wide interventions to combat misinformation.  Underpinning this note is analysis from a survey of 2,000+ UK…

Review of Online Choice Architecture and Vulnerability

Commissioned by Citizens Advice, this report explores how online choices architecture disproportionately harm vulnerable consumers, recommending this architecture and vulnerability should be addressed together to protect consumers.

Do mobile phone bans in schools really work?

The evidence isn't cut and dry, so how can schools balance building focus and concentration with the reality of young people's digital social lives?

BIT’s Roadmap for AI & BI

At BIT we’re thinking hard about how we should be using artificial intelligence (AI).  We’re not worried that it’ll do us out of business, not yet at least. Rather, we’re excited about the potential to dramatically increase the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of applied behavioural science.

“Together for a safer internet”: how and why we should put children and young people at the heart of designing future internet policy

Today is Safer Internet Day, raising awareness globally of a safer and better internet for all, especially for children and young people. Lis Costa, Managing Director of BIT UK, considers how we might make this year’s theme of “Together for a safer internet” a meaningful reality. 

ChatGOV: Will people trust AI tools to help them use public services?

At BIT, we’re excited about AI’s potential to improve how citizens interact with public services - from providing tailored advice, to streamlining application processes. 

Groundbreaking research on WhatsApp chatbot to reduce intimate partner violence published in PLOS

Patterns of violence can start at an impressionable age, when teenagers and women start their first serious relationships and learn what is “normal”—or even desirable—in a partner. There is a strong connection between positive power equity beliefs and lower IPV prevalence.