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We’re pleased to announce that we will be giving an introduction to science communication for AI researchers at AAAI this year. This will be held on Wednesday 26 February from 13:00. If you are attending the conference and fancy finding out how you can communicate your research to a general audience in different formats, then please do join us. Following … Read More

Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. Critiquing tech through comedy with Laura Allcorn In this episode, we go shopping with artist and performer, Laura Allcorn. We enter into her practice, which is called the Institute for Comedic Inquiry, to learn how she … Read More

In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In the second of our interviews with … Read More

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. Running faster with Enrico Panai This episode we’re chatting with Enrico Panai about the elements of the digital revolution, AI transforming data into information, human-computer interaction, … Read More

Coinbase disabled new user sign-ups in India in 2023 following regulatory roadblocks Brian Armstrong, Coinbase’s CEO, said the platform faced “internal pressure” from India’s central bank Binance resumed its operations in India last August after registering with the FIU Crypto exchange Coinbase is looking at re-entering India after pausing its operations there more than a year ago. According to sources … Read More

This image shows the three-dimensional genome structures of several chromosomes reported in a Dip-C study, which were used to train the new ChromoGen model. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News. By Anne Trafton Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These cell-specific gene expression … Read More

In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In the first of our interviews with … Read More

Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / Better Images of AI / Data Lab Dialogue / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 On Tuesday 4th February 2025, the Children’s AI Summit brought together around 150 children from across the UK to share their messages for global leaders, policymakers, and AI developers on what the future of AI should look like. Hosted by … Read More

The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a short conversation. This month we tackle the topic of bad practice in the sphere of publication. Joining the conversation this time are: Sanmay Das (Virginia Tech), Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University), Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol), and Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University). Sabine Hauert: Today’s topic is bad practice … Read More

Fritzchens Fritz / Better Images of AI / GPU shot etched 5 / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Adam Zewe In a two-part series, MIT News explores the environmental implications of generative AI. In this article, we look at why this technology is so resource-intensive. A second piece will investigate what experts are doing to reduce genAI’s carbon footprint and … Read More