Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano This month we’re chatting with Giulia Trojano about AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, deskilling of digital literacy, chatbot parental … Read More
Learning from logical constraints with lower- and upper-bound arithmetic circuits
How can we train neural networks efficiently to be more consistent with background knowledge? Neural networks are remarkably good at recognising patterns in data, from images to language, but they often fail to respect rules and relationships that are obvious to humans. For instance, a neural network may learn to recognise road agents, their action, and their position in road … Read More
What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?
Teresa Berndtsson / Letter Word Text Taxonomy / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Lin Tian, University of Technology Sydney and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, University of Technology Sydney Microsoft recently released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user’s computer. If you haven’t followed the AI industry closely, you might be asking: what exactly is a small language … Read More
Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: January 2026 edition
This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 January and 28 February 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 9 January 2026 LLM Introspection Speaker: Murray Shanahan Organised by: Imperial College London Join here. 14 January 2026 Disentangling regional impacts of teleconnections using causal … Read More
Stablecoins, Base and ‘everything exchange’: a look inside Coinbase’s strategy to expand in 2026
Stablecoins and the Base network sit at the core of its plans through 2026. The strategy places Coinbase closer to retail brokerages and derivatives platforms. Security and support concerns remain a constraint as the platform broadens. Coinbase is entering 2026 with a platform that looks increasingly different from a traditional crypto exchange. The company is placing greater emphasis on stablecoins, … Read More
AAAI presidential panel – AI perception versus reality video discussion
Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / Distorted Dandelions / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 In March 2025, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), published a report on the Future of AI Research. The report, which was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi covers 17 different AI topics and aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in … Read More
More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI
By Francesco Agnellini, Binghamton University, State University of New York The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of … Read More
2025 digest of digests
2025 has seen another busy 12 months in the world of artificial intelligence. Throughout the year we’ve reported on some of the larger stories, and some of the lesser-covered happenings, in our regular monthly digests. We look back through the archives and pick out one or two stories from each of our digests. January 2025 DeepSeek – the talk of … Read More
AIhub monthly digest: December 2025 – studying bias in AI-based recruitment tools, an image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking, and end of year compilations
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we look into bias in AI-based recruitment tools, find out about a new image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking, dig into human-robot interactions and social robotics, and look back on another … Read More
Half of UK novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely
By Fred Lewsey A new report involving hundreds of literary creatives from across the UK fiction publishing industry reveals widespread fears over copyright violation, lost income, and the future of the art form, as generative AI tools and LLM-authored books flood the market. Just over half (51%) of published novelists in the UK say that artificial intelligence is likely to … Read More