Briony is a Senior Behavioural Analyst at Canvas8. With a degree in Professional Communication and several years spent in advertising and consumer research, she understands the importance of decoding audience behaviour and the impacts for brands. She has a love for storytelling with data and cultural insights. Outside of work you can find her spending too much money on books, dining out, and the latest gym class craze.

The mainstreaming of AI is setting a new precedent for how people relate to non-human sources of intelligence. While automation on a consumer level has typically focused on specific tasks like replying to emails or budgeting, it’s now swiftly expanding to a more dynamic range of applications.

Life on Autopilot

People are taking a patchwork approach to self-expression to feel like they have control over how their identity is generated. Yet as individual expression becomes more mutable and mistrust in social systems abounds, there’s one place above all that people are seeking integrity and guidance: brands.

Reality Split

United Kingdom

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Health providers

Education

Queen Margaret University is utilising VR headsets to replicate maternity emergencies in an attempt to build the confidence and competency of paramedic students. While this is being praised as innovative, it also raises ethical questions about the use of VR in educational settings.  