Author: David Canter

Professor David Canter, the internationally renowned applied social researcher and world-leading crime psychologist, is perhaps most widely known as one of the pioneers of "Offender Profiling" being the first to introduce its use to the UK.

Why Don’t Algorithms Agree With Each Other?
Innovation
February 21, 2024

Why Don’t Algorithms Agree With Each Other?

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Did Turing Miss the Point? Should He Have Thought of the Limerick Test?
Innovation
January 4, 2024

Did Turing Miss the Point? Should He Have Thought of the Limerick Test?

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Musical Ways of Knowing
Interdisciplinarity
July 19, 2023

Musical Ways of Knowing

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Do We Need the Police?
Opinion
March 23, 2023

Do We Need the Police?

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The Trouble with Bootlaces: Treading on Artificial and General Intelligence

The Trouble with Bootlaces: Treading on Artificial and General Intelligence

David Canter considers some implications of ChatGPT and what it tells us about real intelligence, general, artificial or otherwise.

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When Ignorance is Reassuring

When Ignorance is Reassuring

David Canter considers the strange phenomena of Russians believing Putin’s propaganda.

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How Does Putin Think?

How Does Putin Think?

David Canter considers the sorts of psychological processes that may be shaping Vladimir Putin’s actions.

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The Robot Will See You Now

The Robot Will See You Now

David Canter follows his concern that psychologists are losing contact with people by considering how computers are presented as replacements for human ‘intelligence’. This ignores the importance of in situ person to person contact, which has been shown by the COVID pandemic to be so crucial for people.

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Are Other People Hell?

Are Other People Hell?

David Canter discusses the alienation between people that is being generated by a combination of fears of interpersonal contact and the power of the internet. Is a new world emerging in which isolated avatars replace social interaction?

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If Music Be…

If Music Be…

My absence from these pages has been a produce of many forces. Paradoxically, pandemic-related lockdown has made access through the internet to […]

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The Irrationality of Risk Calculations

The Irrationality of Risk Calculations

David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.

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The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers

David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.

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