Resources

Tackling threats to informed decision- making in democratic societies: Promoting epistemic security in a technologically-advanced world

Report by Elizabeth Seger, Shahar Avin, Gavin Pearson, Mark Briers, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Helena Bacon

Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals

Academic Journal article by Murray Shanahan, Matthew Crosby, Benjamin Beyret, Lucy Cheke

Machine Learning Explainability for External Stakeholders

Workshop Paper by Umang Bhatt, McKane Andrus , Adrian Weller, Alice Xiang

Stochastic Flows and Geometric Optimization on the Orthogonal Group

Conference Paper by Krzysztof Choromanski, David Cheikhi , Jared Davis , Valerii Likhosherstov , et al, Adrian Weller

Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review

Academic Journal article by Siddique Latif, Muhammad Usman, Sanaullah Manzoor, et al, Adrian Weller

Untangling Privacy: Losses Versus Violations

Academic Journal article by Jeffrey M. Skopek

Canaries in Technology Mines: Warning Signs of Transformative Progress in AI

Workshop Paper by Carla Zoe Cremer, Jess Whittlestone

AI Paradigms and AI Safety: Mapping Artefacts and Techniques to Safety Issues

Conference Paper by José Hernández-Orallo, Fernando Martınez-Plumed, Shahar Avin, Jess Whittlestone, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

The Animal-AI Testbed and Competition

Academic Journal article by Matthew Crosby, Benjamin Beyret, Murray Shanahan, José Hernández-Orallo, Lucy Cheke, Marta Halina

Review of: Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics, Andrea Goulet and Robert A. Rushing (eds) (2018)

Book review by Olivia Belton

Whiteness of AI: Digital Planet - BBC World Service

Podcast by Kanta Dihal

The Whiteness of AI

Academic Journal article by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal

Building Thinking Machines by Solving Animal Cognition Tasks

Academic Journal article by Matthew Crosby

General Intelligence: An Ecumenical Heuristic for Artificial Consciousness Research?

Academic Journal article by Henry Shevlin

Evaluating and Aggregating Feature-based Model Explanations

Conference Paper by Umang Bhatt, Adrian Weller, Jose M. F. Moura

Adversarial Graph Embeddings for Fair Influence Maximization over Social Networks

Conference Paper by Moein Khajehnejad, Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Jessica Hoffmann, Mahdi Jalili, Adrian Weller

“Explaining” machine learning reveals policy challenges

Popular Journal article by Diane Coyle, Adrian Weller

If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics

Popular Journal article by Will Douglas Heaven, Jess Whittlestone

Artificial intelligence in a crisis needs ethics with urgency

Academic Journal article by Asaf Tzachor, Jess Whittlestone, Lalitha Sundaram, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Pain, placebo, and cognitive penetration

Academic Journal article by Henry Shevlin, Phoebe Friesen

Overcoming Barriers to Cross-cultural Cooperation in AI Ethics and Governance

Academic Journal article by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Jess Whittlestone, Yang Liu, Yi Zeng, Zhe Liu

Global Cambridge webinar: AI and power

Video Recording by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Kanta Dihal, Stephen Toope

The problems that AI Science fiction has caused

Podcast by Tonii Leach

Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past

Popular Journal article by Catherine Stinson

Tools for Wellbeing-Supportive Design: Features, Characteristics, and Prototypes

Academic Journal article by Dorian Peters, Naseem Ahmadpour, Rafael Calvo

AI Research with the Potential for Malicious Use: Publication Norms and Governance Considerations

Chapter in report by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

"Identity and Narratives of AI" Speculation and Percolation: TORCH, University of Oxford.

Video Recording by Kanta Dihal

Towards a History of Artificial Intelligence

Video Recording by Stephanie Dick, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Aaron Plasek

What is "responsible AI"? Christina Demetriades

Film by Christina Demetriades

Counterfactual Accuracies of Alternative Models

Workshop Paper by Umang Bhatt, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Krishna Gummadi, Adrian Weller

Getting a CLUE: A Method for Explaining Uncertainty Estimates

Workshop Paper by Javier Antoran, Umang Bhatt, Tameem Adel Hesham, Adrian Weller, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato

Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims

Report by Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin, Jasmine Wang, Haydn Belfield, Gretchen Krueger

Health surveillance during covid-19 pandemic

Academic Journal article by Rafael Calvo, Sebastian Deterding, Richard M Ryan

Current controversies in the cognitive science of short-term memory

Academic Journal article by Henry Shevlin

Responsible AI—Two Frameworks for Ethical Design Practice

Academic Journal article by Dorian Peters, Karina Vold, Diana Robinson, Rafael Calvo

Defining Artificial Intelligence: Resilient Experts, Fragile Geniuses, and the Potential of Deep Reinforcement Learning

Academic Journal article by Matthew Crosby, Henry Shevlin

Knowledge Creation and its Risks - David Deutsch on AGI

Video Recording by David Deutsch, Clifford Siskin

AI reflections in 2019

Academic Journal article by Henry Shevlin, Kanta Dihal, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Stephen Cave

You shouldn't trust me: Learning models which conceal unfairness from multiple explanation methods

Conference Paper by Botty Dimanov, Umang Bhatt, Mateja Jamnik, Adrian Weller

AI Narratives: A History of imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines

Edited Volume by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Sarah Dillon

Beyond Near- and Long-Term: Towards a Clearer Account of Research Priorities in AI Ethics and Society

Conference Paper by Carina Prunkl, Jess Whittlestone

Advancing impact assessment for intelligent systems

Academic Journal article by Rafael Calvo, Dorian Peters, Stephen Cave

Metaphors of patriarchy in Orphan Black and Westworld

Academic Journal article by Olivia Belton

The Leverhulme CFI Podcast - Nicky Clayton

Podcast by Nicky Clayton, Marta Halina

Artificial Intelligence and Robotization

Chapter in academic jandbook by Martina Kunz, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Supporting human autonomy in AI systems: A framework for ethical enquiry

Chapter in academic jandbook by Rafael Calvo, Dorian Peters, Karina Vold, Richard M.Ryan

Privacy, Autonomy, and Personalised Targeting: rethinking how personal data is used

Paper by Karina Vold, Jess Whittlestone

The Problem with Intelligence: Its Value-Laden History and the Future of AI

Conference Paper by Stephen Cave

Lost in the house of tomorrow: Berlin’s newest museum

Academic Journal article by Stephen Cave

Algorithmic Decision‑Making and the Control Problem

Academic Journal article by John Zerilli, Alistair Knott, James Maclaurin, Colin Gavaghan

Neural Redundancy and Its Relation to Neural Reuse

Academic Journal article by John Zerilli

The Leverhulme CFI Podcast - Rafael Calvo and Dorian Peters

Podcast by Rafael Calvo, Dorian Peters, Anna Alexandrova

The Leverhulme CFI Podcast - Toshie Takahashi

Podcast by Toshie Takahashi, Beth Singler

The Leverhulme CFI Podcast - Daniel Dennett

Podcast by Daniel Dennett, Henry Shevlin

Human Augmentation

Podcast by Karina Vold, Thomas Bohne

An Empirical Study on Learning Fairness Metrics for COMPAS Data with Human Supervision

Conference Paper by Hanchen Wang, Nina Grgić-Hlača, Preethi Lahoti, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller

DADI: Dynamic Discovery of Fair Information with Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

Workshop Paper by Michiel A. Bakker, Duy Patrick Tu, Humberto Riverón Valdés, Krishna P. Gummadi, Kush R. Varshney, Adrian Weller, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

Explainable Machine Learning in Deployment

Conference Paper by Umang Bhatt, Alice Xiang, Shubham Sharma, Adrian Weller, Ankur Taly, Yunhan Jia, Joydeep Ghosh, Ruchir Puri, José M. F. Moura, Peter Eckersley

How we can extend our minds with AI

Podcast by Karina Vold, John Danaher

Exploring Properties of the Deep Image Prior

Workshop Paper by Andreas Kattamis, Tameem Adel Hesham, Adrian Weller

Defining and Unpacking Transformative AI

Conference Paper by Ross Gruetzemacher, Jess Whittlestone

AI and data governance from principles to practice: auto insurance. Workshop report September 2018

Report by The Royal Society, Adrian Weller

The tension between openness and prudence in responsible AI research

Conference Paper by Jess Whittlestone, Aviv Ovadya

The limits of machine intelligence

Academic Journal article by Henry Shevlin, Karina Vold, Matthew Crosby, Marta Halina

Autonomous Flight: Interview with Olivia Belton

Podcast by Olivia Belton

Five Ways AI Is Not Like The Manhattan Project (And One Way It Is)

Popular Journal article by Marta Halina, Joseph D. Martin

Reducing malicious use of synthetic media research: Considerations and potential release practices for machine learning

Paper by Aviv Ovadya, Jess Whittlestone

Matthew Crosby: The Animal-AI Olympics - London Machine Learning Meetup

Video Recording by Matthew Crosby

Norms for Communication and Digital Technologies, a public lecture by Onora O'Neill

Video Recording by Onora O'Neill

"How smart could AI get?" BBC Radio 4, Today Programme

Sound Recording by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

The Sensitivity of Counterfactual Fairness to Unmeasured Confounding

Conference Paper by Niki Kilbertus, Philip J. Ball, Matt J. Kusner, Adrian Weller, Ricardo Silva

AI and Gender: Four Proposals for Future Research

Report by Clementine Collett, Sarah Dillon

The Margaret Boden Lecture 2019: Professor Daniel Dennett

Video Recording by Daniel Dennett

Gender and AI Panel - CogX 2019

Video Recording by Carly Kind, Kanta Dihal, Gina Neff, Clemi Collett, Maria Axente, Sarah Dillon

TibGM: A Transferable and Information-Based Graphical Model Approach for Reinforcement Learning

Conference Paper by Tameem Adel Hesham, Adrian Weller

257challenge accepted: The Animal-AI Olympics

Academic Journal article by Matthew Crosby, Benjamin Beyret, Marta Halina

Apply rich psychological terms in AI with care

Academic Journal article by Henry Shevlin, Marta Halina

Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (EAD1e)

Report by IEEE

Minds in the deep: Octopuses as conscious exotica

Sound Recording by Marta Halina

Artificial Intelligence/Robots and Social Impacts: Is Human First Innovation Wishful Thinking?

Academic Journal article by Toshie Takahashi

Ghost in the Machine

Film by Beth Singler, DragonLight Films

Testing the vertical and cyber-physical integration of cognitive robots in manufacturing

Academic Journal article by Volker Kreuger, Francesco Rovido, Bjarne Grossman, Ronald Petrick, Matthew Crosby, Arnaud Chazoule, German Martin Garcia, Sven Behnke, Cesar Toscano, Germano Veiga

Good in the Machine

Film by Beth Singler, Dragonlight Films

AI: Life in the age of intelligent machines

Film by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Sarah Dillon, Zoubin Ghahramani, Stephen Cave

BBC Radio 4 The Today Programme: AI Special

Sound Recording by Sarah Dillon

The Leverhulme CFI Podcast - Londa Schiebinger

Podcast by Londa Schiebinger, Sarah Dillon

The Case for Extended Intelligence

Report by The Council on Extended Intelligence (IEEE), Jonnie Penn

The Pineapple Report: Youth in Europe Face the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Report by Jonnie Penn, John Lisney, Gonçalves Gil Manuel

Surveying Safety-relevant AI Characteristics

Conference Paper by José Hernández-Orallo, Fernando Martınez-Plumed, Shahar Avin, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Research

Report by Jess Whittlestone, Rune Nyrup, Anna Alexandrova, Kanta Dihal, Stephen Cave

Response to the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Report by Jess Whittlestone, Charlotte Stix

One-network Adversarial Fairness

Conference Paper by Tameem Adel Hesham, Isabel Valera, Zoubin Ghahramani, Adrian Weller

To build conscious machines, focus on general intelligence: a framework for the assessment of consciousness in biological and artificial systems

Conference Paper by Henry Shevlin

Hopes and fears for intelligent machines in fiction and reality

Academic Journal article by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal

Why Artificial Consciousness Matters

Conference Paper by Matthew Crosby

Narratives and Artificial Intelligence

Sound Recording by Stephen Cave, Sarah Dillon, Beth Singler, Kanta Dihal

The Role and Limits of Principles in AI Ethics: Towards a Focus on Tensions

Conference Paper by Jess Whittlestone, Rune Nyrup, Anna Alexandrova, Stephen Cave

Challenges for Transparency

Conference Paper by Adrian Weller

AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI

Conference Paper by José Hernández-Orallo, Karina Vold

Assessing the impact of machine intelligence on human behaviour: an interdisciplinary endeavour

Report by Emilia Gomez et al, José Hernández-Orallo, Karina Vold

Bridging near- and long-term concerns about AI

Academic Journal article by Stephen Cave, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

What Apes Know About Seeing in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds (2017) eds. K Andrews & J Beck

Chapter in academic jandbook by Marta Halina

A Survey of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence ecosystem

Report by Charlotte Stix

Brutality is common in video games, but not sexual violence. Why?

Popular Journal article by Henry Shevlin

fAIth

Popular Journal article by Beth Singler

AI slaves: the questionable desire shaping our idea of technological progress

Popular Journal article by Beth Singler

Intelligence: a history

Motivations and Risks of Machine Ethics

Academic Journal article by Stephen Cave, Rune Nyrup, Karina Vold, Adrian Weller

Overcoming Deadlock: Scientific and ethical reasons to embrace the extended mind

Academic Journal article by Karina Vold

AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you

Popular Journal article by Beth Singler

Berggruen China Center Interview with Professor Huw Price on Technology and the Future of Humanity

Video Recording by Berggruen Institute China Center, Huw Price

Online Symposium: Chinese Thinking on AI Security in Comparative Context

Blog Post by Charlotte Stix

Gendered Innovations in Machine Learning and Robotics: Public Lecture

Video Recording by Londa Schiebinger, Gina Neff

“Scary Robots”: Examining Public Responses to AI

Conference Paper by Stephen Cave, Kate Coughlan, Kanta Dihal

To save us from a Kafkaesque future, we must democratise AI

Newspaper Article by Stephen Cave

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Views from History

Video Recording by Sarah Dillon, Margaret Boden, Murray Shanahan, Simon Schaffer, Nathan Ensmenger, Pamela McCorduck

AI thinks like a corporation—and that’s worrying

Portrayals and Perceptions of AI and why they matter

Report by Claire Craig, Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Sarah Dillon, Jess Montgomery, Beth Singler, Lindsay Taylor

Free speech and non-human speakers: Public Event

Video Recording by David Runciman, Rae Langton, Philip Pettit, Toni Erskine

Can we understand other minds? Novels and stories say: no

AI and Data-driven Targeting

Report by Karina Vold, Jess Whittlestone, Anunya Bahanda, Stephen Cave

Not null enough: pseudo-null hypotheses in community ecology and comparative psychology

Academic Journal article by William Bausman, Marta Halina

Responsibly deploying AI in the immigration process

Popular Journal article by Diana Robinson, Karina Vold

BBC World Service: CrowdScience - Why Does History Repeat Itself?

Sound Recording by Karina Vold

Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots

Academic Journal article by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal

Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science

Academic Journal article by Rune Nyrup

Blind Justice: Fairness with Encrypted Sensitive Attributes

Conference Paper by Niki Kilbertus, Adria Gascon, Matt Kusner, Michael Veale, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller

Can AI be creative? Cogx 2018 - Panel

Video Recording by Sarah Dillon, Margaret Boden

Conscious exotica

Popular Journal article by Murray Shanahan

The Leverhulme CFI Podcast - Peter Godfrey-Smith

Podcast by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Marta Halina

The Margaret Boden Lecture 2018: Professor Margaret Boden

Video Recording by Margaret Boden

The Facets of Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Track the Evolution of AI

Conference Paper by Fernando Martınez-Plumed, Bao Sheng Loe, Peter Flach, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Karina Vold, José Hernández-Orallo

The Off-Switch Game

Conference Paper by Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Anca Dragan, Pieter Abbeel, Stuart Russell

AI Narratives: A Prelude to the Stopping of the Pitchforks: CogX 2018

Sound Recording by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal

"Stop the Terminator Chat" - How to Talk about AI And Avoid the Pitchfork Moment: CogX 2018

Video Recording by Sarah Dillon, Sally Davies, Arohi Jain Rajvanshi, Claire Craig

Accounting for the Neglected Dimensions of AI Progress

Academic Journal article by Fernando Martınez-Plumed, Shahar Avin, Miles Brundage, Allan Dafoe, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, José Hernández-Orallo

On the Influence of Literature on Science

Academic Journal article by Sarah Dillon

Augmented Intelligence

Video Recording by Karina Vold, James Hewitt, Martha Imprialou

Human Perceptions of Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making: A Case Study of Criminal Risk Prediction

Conference Paper by Nina Grgić-Hlača, Elissa M. Redmiles, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller

The goal of ape pointing

Academic Journal article by Marta Halina, Katja Liebal, Michael Tomasello

Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay

Popular Journal article by Beth Singler

Purple Feed: Identifying High Consensus News Posts on Social Media

Conference Paper by Mahmoudreza Babaei, Juhi Kulshrestha, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Fabrıcio Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller

Beyond Distributive Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making: Feature Selection for Procedurally Fair Learning

Conference Paper by Nina Grgić-Hlača, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller

Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you?

Want To Know What The End Of The World Looks Like? Look On Your Bookshelf

Octopuses as conscious exotica

Academic Review Article by Marta Halina

From Homer to Hal: 3,000 years of AI Narratives

Popular Journal article by Sarah Dillon, Kanta Dihal, Beth Singler

Living with AI

Popular Journal article by Huw Price, Karina Vold

Discovering interpretable representations for both deep generative and discriminative models

Conference Paper by Tameem Adel Hesham, Zoubin Ghahramani, Adrian Weller

From Parity to Preference-based Notions of Fairness in Classification

Conference Paper by Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller

BBC Radio 4 Start the Week: Blood, guts and swearing robots

Sound Recording by Beth Singler

Of, for, and by the people: the legal lacuna of synthetic persons

Academic Journal article by Joanna J. Bryson, Mihailis E. Diamantis, Thomas D Grant

How can AI systems be designed ethically? Alan Winfield

Film by Alan Winfield

What is artificial intelligence? Professor Murray Shanahan

Film by Murray Shanahan

What is machine learning? Professor Zoubin Ghahramani

Film by Zoubin Ghahramani

What is the purpose of AI? Professor Stuart Russell

Film by Stuart Russell

How is AI represented in films? Dr Sarah Dillon

Film by Sarah Dillon

How can AI systems align with human values? Professor Francesca Rossi

Film by Francesca Rossi

Will humans be replaced by machines? Cassian Harrison

Film by Cassian Harrison

CFI Conference - July 2017

Video Recording

What is the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence?

Film by Murray Shanahan, Stuart Russell, Francesca Rossi, Alan Winfield, Zoubin Ghahramani, Julian Huppert

When children are more intelligent than adults: Theory formation, causal models, and the evolution of learning: Professor Alison Gopnik

Video Recording by Alison Gopnik

Mapping Intelligence: Requirements and Possibilities

Conference Paper by Anna Alexandrova, Shahar Avin, Stephen Cave, Lucy Cheke, Matthew Crosby, Jan Feyereisl, Marta Halina, Bao Sheng Loe, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Fernando Martinez-Plumed, Huw Price, Henry Shevlin, Adrian Weller, Alan Winfield, José Hernández-Orallo

Domains of generality

Academic Commentary by Andrew Buskell, Marta Halina

Mechanistic explanation and its limits in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Mechanisms (2017) eds. S Glennan & P Illari

Chapter in academic jandbook by Marta Halina

Friend in the Machine

Film by Beth Singler, DragonLight Films

LCFI Launch: Stephen Hawking

Video Recording by Stephen Hawking

Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene

Company Law and Autonomous Systems: A Blueprint for Lawyers, Entrepreneurs and Regulators

Academic Journal article by Shawn J. Bayern, Thomas Burri, Thomas D Grant, Daniel M Häusermann, Florian Möslein, Richard Williams

Would you hand over a decision to a machine?

Chapter in edited volume by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Pain in the Machine

Film by Beth Singler, DragonLight Films