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Aug 6, 2026

Jason Arday resigns from Cambridge amid plagiarism allegations

Jason Arday, who became Cambridge's youngest Black professor in 2023, resigned after the university opened an investigation into plagiarism allegations and questions about his academic credentials and backstory.

Aug 6, 2026·10 sources

Apr 14, 2026

Google DeepMind Hires Philosopher to Research Machine Consciousness

Google DeepMind has hired a philosopher with a PhD from City University of New York and degrees from Oxford to work on questions of machine consciousness, moral agency, and AI sentience as models advance.

Apr 14, 2026·3 sources

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▪Professor Jason Arday admitted to some mistakes in his doctoral work, attributing them to a lack of supervision, but denied committing deliberate plagiarism.
▪The University of London's Birkbeck stated it could find no student records for Professor Jason Arday, who claimed to have completed a master's in psychodynamic practices there.
▪Cambridge's Jesus College accepted Professor Jason Arday's resignation, concluding its parallel college-level process as his fellowship was contingent on his university appointment.

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