AI Research Group (News at the University of Sussex)

Sustainable AI Futures: Conversations Posted on behalf of: Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (SHL Digital) Last updated: Monday, 16 March 2026 Sustainable AI Futures is a BRAID-UK* project exploring the relationship between AI and the environment -- with special interest in the social life of governance tools, the generation and circulation of knowledge claims, how we imagine alternative futures. Sus…

@CPHDOX - the premiere of film 'Conscious' - 8 years in the making By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Tuesday, 10 March 2026 Can subjective consciousness be studied objectively? A philosophical and scientific dilemma looms large in a film about the mysteries of the brain, where life itself catches up with a neuroscientist. In this immersive and contemplative feature, the mysteries of the brain mee…

AISB 2026 Symposium on the Ethics of Gen-AI Assisted Authoring Posted on behalf of: Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (SHL Digital) Last updated: Wednesday, 25 March 2026 Members of SHL Digital are organising a symposium on the Ethics of Generative-AI Assisted Authoring at AISB 2026, University of Sussex in July. The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) …

SCCS Organizes Unique Workshop on Computational Neurophenomenology By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Wednesday, 4 March 2026 Two postdoctoral fellows from SCCS, Robert Chis-Ciure and Ishan Singhal, are organizing a unique workshop on computational neurophenomenology. The workshop scheduled to take place between 22 –29th March, houses 18 early career researchers in a mountain cabin in the Austrian…

Law in the Age of AI By: Mike Davy Last updated: Monday, 23 February 2026 Our recent Law in the Age of AI event brought together students, sixth formers and legal innovators for an evening of exploration, experimentation and honest debate. Through live “vibe coding” demonstrations, participants saw firsthand how AI tools can be built and tested, while also engaging critically with the risks — fro…

AICSED 2026 - Final call for papers (31 March 2026). AISB Symposium on AI and CogSci in Education | Brighton, UK By: Ronald Grau Last updated: Wednesday, 11 March 2026 About the Symposium Call for papers We particularly encourage contributions that bridge human learning sciences with technical system design in domains such as music instruction, special education for people with sensory disabiliti…

Call for abstracts: workshop AI Consciousness and ethics - at AISB-2026, University of Sussex, UK, 1 to 2 July 20 By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Friday, 9 January 2026 We invite you to present your work in the workshop reg. AI CONSCIOUSNESS AND ETHICS, which will be part of the AISB conference to be held at the University of Sussex, UK, 1 to 2 July 2026. The conference is organised by The Soci…

Professor Anil Seth appointed as the new patron for Humanists UK By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Friday, 21 November 2025 Humanists UK is delighted to announce the appointment of its newest patron, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Anil Seth. He joins a stable of over 200 Humanists UK patrons with notable careers in arts, literature, science, academia, politics, and communit…

Sussex AI seminar: Alex Penn By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Friday, 14 November 2025 Bio: Brief abstract: Dr Alex Penn is a new lecturer in Sussex Informatics, having previously studied the MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems in COGS and gained her DPhil in the CCNR on the Major Transitions in Evolution and origins of evolutionary individuality Since then, she has primarily worked on deve…

Sussex AI seminar: Sid Mookerjee By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Wednesday, 12 November 2025 Title: Drip feeding Interpretable data to drive clinical decision making in Acute Trust settings. A very conservative approach! Bio: Dr Sid Mookerjee is the clinical epidemiologist and healthcare systems specialist working on - Healthcare associated infection and AMR - Building automated surveillance sy…

Sussex AI seminar: Robyn Waller and Russell Waller By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Wednesday, 12 November 2025 Abstract: In Waller & Waller (2021), assembled bias names how composing local pieces into a global picture can introduce emergent error—often worsened by discretization, where models must assemble meaning from many chunks. Transformers embrace discretization but pair (discrete) tokens …

Sussex AI seminar: Moinul Zaber By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Wednesday, 12 November 2025 Title: 'Why AI Remains Unreliable for Development Studies — and How Epistemic Disalignment Reveals Deeper Failures of Knowledge Representation in Low-Resource Language Models'. Abstract: Artificial intelligence holds great promise for advancing development research, yet current systems remain unreliable …

Broadcast: News items Digital Methods Accelerator Autumn 2025 programme Posted on behalf of: Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (SHL Digital) Last updated: Friday, 10 October 2025 Following a successful Summer Camp of taster sessions, the Digital Methods Accelerator programme (DMA) returns with an exciting set of workshops aimed at Social Sciences and Humanities researchers at all levels wanting to ex…

Sussex AI seminar: Yanpei Huang By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Thursday, 9 October 2025 Title: Human Augmentation in Robotic Surgery: From Hands-Free Interfaces to Trimanual Task Taxonomy Abstract Robotic movement augmentation enables surgeons to control more than two instruments at once, opening new possibilities for solo trimanual surgery. This talk presents recent developments in hands-free…

Sussex AI seminar: Julian Gutierrez By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Thursday, 9 October 2025 Title: Neuro-Symbolic Systems: An Overview Abstract: Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging paradigm that seeks to combine the strengths of symbolic reasoning/AI with the learning capabilities of machine learning models. Traditional symbolic AI offers interpretability, compositionali…

Sussex AI seminar: Danny Alexander By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Thursday, 11 September 2025 Title: Image quality transfer for low-field MRI and other imaging/AI applications Abstract: I will talk through some recent applications and advances of machine learning and computational modelling for medical imaging at UCL Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute (formerly CMIC). I will focus on on…

Sussex Law Academic Invited to give Evidence at House of Lords for development of new Online Safety Act By: Heather Stanley Last updated: Wednesday, 10 September 2025 Dr Beatriz Kira, Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Sussex, was invited to share insights from her research and to give evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on 9 September in relation to a…

Supercharging AI Memory Through Curved Geometry By: Meganne Tillay Last updated: Thursday, 24 July 2025 What if artificial intelligence could remember things not just well, but faster or more reliably? A new international study has introduced a novel type of AI memory—one that addresses the challenge not with more data, but with geometry. A team of researchers from the Basque Center for Applied M…

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Outreach Success at the Portslade Science Fair! By: Aleks Kossowska Last updated: Wednesday, 9 July 2025 We had a fantastic day at the Portslade Science Fair last weekend! The event was a great success, with over 300 people visiting the Engineering and Informatics stand throughout the day. It was inspiring to see such enthusiasm from the community — curiosity, questions, and smiles :). Our tent d…