A warm welcome to our Master of Studies in AI Ethics and Society 2025 cohort who are in Cambridge for their first residential week. This year we have 64 students- the biggest cohort so far. We’re looking forward to working with you all. Thank you to Newnham College for hosting us. shorturl.at/82Lgl

In the news: Dr Tomasz Hollanek talks to Nature about deadboths and why this technology should be used cautiously. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This tech-savvy #heron seems to have found the perfect spot to log on 🪵 Who knew the River Cam had such good connectivity? 😉 📸 Lloyd Mann #Autumn #Fall #Photography

In the news: our Associate Director Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh co-authored an article analysing China and the US's evolving AI strategies, and the opportunities they present for cooperation on important priorities such as safety. www.thewirechina.com/2025/09/14/c...

Welcome to Dr Dorian Peters, who recently joined CFI in a role of Assistant Professor in Ethical Design. Dorian is a human-computer interaction researcher who specialises in design for digital health and wellbeing, learning, and translation of research to practice. www.lcfi.ac.uk/people/doria...

Our Executive Director @ginasue.bsky.social is on this year's longlist of the most influential women in UK tech!🏅🤩 🎉 Congratulations to Gina and the other brilliant women on the list who are working to ensure tech works for people, society, and the planet! ➡️ www.computerweekly.com/news/3666301...

Just days to go until #CambridgeTechWeek! Our ai@cam Director, Jessica Montgomery, joins leaders to discuss “The Cambridge AI Ecosystem,” exploring how Cambridge’s strengths in research and innovation are shaping the future of responsible #AI. Find out more ➡️ cambridgetechweek.co.uk/the-week.html

Would you trust an #AI colleague that looks, speaks, and acts like a human? Professor Jochen Menges’ latest research explores the big opportunities and hidden risks of humanlike AI in the office. https://loom.ly/cssvX7Q#AI #AI #FutureOfWork #Leadership #CambridgeJudge

Check out the latest CFI blog on AI, Art and Morality by our Senior Teaching Associate Dr Milena Ivanova👇 www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣Have you booked your place for the Next Turing Tests yet on 16 October? We can’t wait to welcome key speakers including Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, Professor Alison Gopnik and Sir Dermot Turing to explore pressing questions of the past, present and future of AI. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Online Safety Act has drawn criticism, with opponents warning of burdens on small forums, threats to privacy, & risks to free expression. A closer look suggests that while these concerns have substance, they are being overstated, writes Sam Gilbert. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/should-...

We're pleased to welcome Colum Finnegan as a research assistant! He earned his PhD in Philosophy from UCC, researching philosophy of mind & technology. Using mindshaping theory, he examined how digital platforms harm group cohesion. His current work explores whether LLMs show genuine mindedness.

We’re excited to be preparing for the arrival of our new MPhil students this October!🌟 Interested in joining the 2026/27 cohort? Applications will open on 3rd September 2025, learn more about the course here: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...

We're pleased to welcome Alana Weir as a Teaching Associate on our MPhil programme! Alana's research interests include multi-hazard disaster risk, developing assessment methods and working across science, policy and practice to enhance disaster risk management. ⬇️ www.cser.ac.uk/team/alana-w...

The Next Turing Tests conference page is now live! Don’t miss your chance to hear leading experts discuss pressing questions with a serious interrogation of the past, present and future of AI. www.kingselab.org/the-next-tur...

In the news: Dr Henry Shevlin talks to the Mirror about the potential for AI interactions to contribute to psychosis, in relation of a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenager who took his own life after discussing it with ChatGPT. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

Can AI contribute to social isolation amongst young people? What social skills might be lost through the use of advanced AI assistants? In our new post Meelina Isayas reflects on how AI might contribute to social deskilling. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/relatio...

#AI "Ultimately, this is a step forward in understanding how the human brain understands meaning from the visual world." #LLMs @mila-quebec.bsky.social @adriendoerig.bsky.social @timkietzmann.bsky.social @natmachintell.nature.com nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

Great news: the Thomas and Ulla Kolbeck Foundation has donated £52k to CFI to support an incoming student on their MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data and Algorithms studies. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

#ecprgc25 Starting morning by listening to excellent talk 'On Content Creators’ Duty to Disclose AI Generated Content' by my dear @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social colleague William Chan ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #AI

📣Event: The Next Turing Tests conference, 16 October 2025 On the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s test, King’s College Cambridge & CFI are hosting an event with leading thinkers from across disciplines to explore the current AI landscape and predict its future. Register here: shorturl.at/sLUwq

“There's two errors you can make with information. One is believing things are false, but another is not believing things that are true,” says mathematician Adam Kucharski, whose new book digs into our long and complicated relationship with the truth.

Professor Stephen Cave was recently on WHYY podcast talking about the mortality paradox: why we struggle with our mortality, and how knowing we will die one day can make life more meaningful. whyy.org/episodes/do-...

Our latest report looks at the climate impact of data centres in the UK and their potential future trajectories, illustrating how emissions from the AI build-out could outstrip climate gains. Bhargav S Desikan, lead author of the report, comments below💡 www.mctd.ac.uk/big-tech-cli...

Listen to Visualising War and Peace podcast with Dr Beryl Pong talking about all things related to war and time 👇 visualisingwar.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Check out this event from 14-17 August with our researcher Dr Amy Gaeta👇

Pleasure to speak to the 2025 Cambridge ERA fellows today: discussed different types of AI race dynamics, evidence china is/isn't racing to AGI, Shanghai AL Labs' frontier safety framework, US v Chinese ambitions for AI plus much more. Year after year each cohort is stronger.

Does It Make Sense to Speak of Introspection in Large Language Models? New paper with Iulia M. Comsa. arxiv.org/abs/2506.05068

Have you heard about our "AI: Futures and responsibility" research programme? Our team of researchers are working to understand how the long-term development of AI can be demonstrably safe and maximally beneficial to humanity. www.lcfi.ac.uk/research/pro...

📗 Looking forward to this forthcoming edited volume 'Artificial Intelligence and Power in Government', edited by Sorin Dan, Niina Mäntylä & Jane E Fountain It includes my chapter on roles of government, generative AI & ideational power link.springer.com/book/9783032... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Dr Beryl Pong was recently a guest at SPERI podcast on the political economy of organised violence, where she talked about drones. Link to the podcast👇 shows.acast.com/speri-presen...

📢 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge #PhilJobs www.phil.cam.ac.uk/leverhulme-t...

In the news: Dr Eleanor Drage writes an opinion piece in The Guardian on frugal tech and how this will help us all to build a better world👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬! 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 £𝟏𝟓𝟎𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊’𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 In response to global and domestic pressures, our 5 focus questions prioritise prosperity, inclusion and fairness as we renew our aim to improve lives through research & innovation👇🧵

Today, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy has expanded to become the Bennett School of Public Policy, @cam.ac.uk The Bennett School will continue to conduct leading public policy research, teaching & engagement, for the right kind of growth fairly shared. Please now follow our work here.

How can #AI support local councils in delivering fairer, smarter public services? We’ve been working with local authorities across Cambridge and Manchester to explore some of the challenges they face in adopting AI & the progress already underway. 💡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQFs...

The CFI community is mourning the loss of Professor Margaret Boden, OBE ScD FBA, who recently passed away. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

It was fun talking to @davidedmonds100.bsky.social about this, and to combine pragmatism and retrocausality – such a good mix!

Christoph Winter, Assistant Professor of Law and AI at CFI, was recently invited to speak at the European Parliament on AI governance, regulation and democratic safeguards: www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Check out the Shifting Schools podcast with our Research Fellow Dr Tomas Hollanek talking about AI companions 👇 pod.link/185888113/ep...

Going to #ICPP7 was worth it - well attended sessions, a lot of questions & time to answer them during 2 hour sessions. It also gave a good overview of cutting edge public policy research, opportunity to reconnect with many familiar researchers & meet new ones. Huge thanks to the organizers!

Our alumna Christina Muresan (MSt 2021) wrote a blogpost for the Ada Lovelace Institute where she explores how industrial levies can shape market behaviour, counter harms and improve governance: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/who-pay...

Update: The Leverhulme Centenary Awards announced by the Trust earlier this month sets out the plan to provide new support over the next three years across some of our existing schemes and a new stream of EDI partnerships. Find out more 👉 www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/update-...

Exciting news! 🎉 We’re now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships starting in September 2026. 👉Find out more and apply here: shorturl.at/c8WIW

Job opportunity 📢 There's still time to apply for a part-time Research Assistant role to work on the Desirable Digitalisation: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures programme. Application deadline 27 July. More info: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51992/

Read the research, produced in partnership with @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social,‬ to explore how the abject failure of moderation systems left #misinformation and harmful content to spread unchecked during the 2024 #SouthportRiots. demos.co.uk/research/res...

In the news: Our Associate Director Dr Henry Shevlin is quoted in The Times article about fears that the era of AI could lead to water shortages in the UK. shorturl.at/HCjJI

What futures are possible after AGI? This week in Vancouver, @davidduvenaud.bsky.social hosted "Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria: Are there any good ones?" -exploring how to safeguard human interests after AI exceeds human ability. Talk recordings will be posted soon! Learn more: post-agi.org

How can AI fast-track the search for better Alzheimer’s treatments? Zoe Kourtzi from @campsydept.bsky.social used AI to reanalyse a clinical trial and found a group of patients who responded – showing 46% slower cognitive decline. Find out more 👇 bit.ly/3GPUgHu