CFI will be closed for the Christmas holidays. We wish you a peaceful and joyful festive season. Take some time to rest and spend it with the people who matter most. We’ll see you in 2026!

Another highlight of our look back to 2025: In October CFI in collaboration with King’s E-Lab at King’s College, hosted an international conference entitled the Next Turing Tests to mark the 75th anniversary of the famous test. Read the summary of the event: www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

CSER is looking for an Assistant Professor in Global Risk and Resilience! The role holder will lead research relevant to the study of global risk and resilience and contribute to teaching, assessment, and admissions for CSER's MPhil. Deadline: 8 February 2026 Apply and learn more: bit.ly/4j3PZyT

Another highlight of our look back to 2025: In July Dr Christoph Winter was invited to speak at the European Parliament on AI governance, regulation and democratic safeguards. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Another highlight of 2025: in May we hosted "AI and the future of journalism" event at King’s College. Parmy Olson (Bloomberg), Jessica Cecil (Digital Catapult) & Geeta Guru-Murthy (BBC) joined a panel discussion with CFI's researcher Dr Tomasz Hollanek, moderated by our director Prof Stephen Cave.

🌟 Exactly 5 years ago first article in my research programme on AI governance, politics & policy was published 'Framing governance for a contested emerging technology: insights from AI policy' Thanks to all who have read & engaged with this & the follow-up publications doi.org/10.1080/1449... #AI

Another highlight of our look back to 2025: High-risk EU AI Act Toolkit (HEAT) launched in February to help businesses navigate high-risk AI compliance under EU Artificial Intelligence Act. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

In the next couple weeks, we’ll be sharing some highlights from 2025. Today’s spotlight: a paper on ‘intention economy’ co-authored by Dr Jonnie Penn and Dr Yaqub Chaudhary says AI assistants could manipulate and forecast decision-making in the near future. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Check out the new paper by Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists👇

Last week our MPhil students took part in a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) simulation as part of the Governing Climate Catastrophe elective. They debated how to respond to a hypothetical collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major climate tipping point. 🧵

We're pleased to welcome Vanessa Burns as a Teaching Associate on our MPhil programme! Dr Vanessa Burns is a political scientist with research interests in resilience and adaptation to climate change, extreme climate change, environmental governance, and environmental justice.

Write an essay to win £500 📝 Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize. This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members. Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025 Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc

In the latest episode of The Good Robot podcast, our Research Fellow Dr Aisha Sobey explores how anti-fat bias shapes our digital lives. Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Qe...

Welcome to Asher Kessler who recently joined CFI as a Research Assistant to work on the Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures project. Check out Asher's profile on our website: www.lcfi.ac.uk/people/asher...

🎄All we want for Christmas is for AI regulation to work for people and society. Our new polling shows the UK public are concerned that tech companies’ needs are being prioritised over their own when it comes to AI regulation. Read the full findings ⬇️ www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

Could #AI speed up the scientific process? That's the idea behind Denario, an AI-powered 'scientific assistant' co-developed by researchers at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org What can Denario do? Find out: bit.ly/47Hfvom #MachineLearning #Tech #Computing

Dr Beryl Pong interviewed in a radio documentary that explores the auditory landscape of wartime Ukraine, and how the sounds of war shape life at and beyond the battlefront. Listen here: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/blog/radio-d...

New paper on leveraging the AI Act in the EU to advance pro-justice approaches to technological development, moving beyond mere compliance and foregrounding social justice and environmental sustainability is now published. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How much risk is too much for the world’s top insurers? Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk? 👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...

Nice to discuss AI policy, societal challenges and design at Imperial this morning

Dr Lucius Caviola was recently a guest speaker on the Prism podcast talking about his work on digital minds. Listen to the full episode here: www.prism-global.com/podcast/luci...

Did you know that there's a wide range of scholarships, grants and bursaries at Cambridge for postgraduate study? Here are just a few of them. Tap for a complete guide: https://bit.ly/4oOClBT 🚨 The deadline for most courses is early December so apply now.

🐠 Join us on Thursday, 27 November for this exciting event 'A fishbowl experiment of voices in flux. Co-producing an interdisciplinary research agenda in Science, Technology & Society in Cambridge'. More info & registration here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-fishbowl... #STS

A new paper by Dr Claire Benn examines the ethical concerns surrounding deepfake pornography creation, its potential harm to individuals and how such issues might be addressed. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very pleased my colleagues @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk are one of the teams selected for this excellent @ai.cam.ac.uk initiative to streamline university ops: www.ai.cam.ac.uk/news/eight-t...

Two Gates Cambridge Scholars - Abdullah Hasan Safir & Ramit Debnath - have contributed to a new paper on a human-AI art experiment involving Bangladeshi artist S M Sultan aimed at reimagining inclusive design futures in AI - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/r... #AI #design @uniofcam.bsky.social

🚨A new report co-authored by Dr Maya Ganesh "AI in street: Lessons from everyday encounters with AI innovation" says communities across the UK feel left out of the benefits of public sector artificial intelligence – calling for more public participation in AI policy. shorturl.at/56Rjk

Check out the latest episode of the Good Robot Podcast featuring Felienne Hermans👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTJW...

📚Dive into the future of AI ethics. Join our MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data & Algorithms programme & work closely with leading researchers at the University of Cambridge. If you are applying for funding, the deadline is 2 December. Apply today: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/dire...

The second report from World Internet Conference's International AI Governance Programme, co-lead by Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Yi Zeng is now out. The report recommends robust governance interventions aimed at minimising frontier AI risk: www.wicinternet.org/pdf/Advancin...

A brain-computer interface co-piloted by AI improved how a person with paralysis complete tasks, such as moving a computer cursor or operating a robotic arm, by up to four times, according to research in @natmachintell.nature.com: spklr.io/63322BHjsK #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #AI

Great to have IFOW trustee Professor Gina Neff on the BBC this Sunday, speaking to the increasingly urgent need for strong regulation and trusted AI systems as more and more digital products and platforms are embedded with AI explainers, assistants and chatbots.

Last month in collaboration with King’s E-Lab, King’s College, we hosted an international conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the famous Turing Test. If you missed it, you can catch up by reading the event summary and watching the recordings. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website? 🌲 Environmental hazard This image depicts a floodplain, representing an area of regulated, human-engineering that dominates organic forms. The human-made city form is mimicked in the circuit board in the top left corner.

Highly personalised and personable, Advanced AI Assistants may soon become the primary way that most people access the internet. Our research explores the challenges that could arise if their adoption is not carefully managed in the public interest. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/dilem...

From the spires to the River Cam, beautiful #Cambridge glows in the autumn light 🍂 For everyone who studies, works, visits or lives here, this is your Cambridge from above.

New CFI blog: Can AI technologies protect retail workers? www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

In the news: Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh wrote an article for Internationale Politik, in which he calls for: more of a global conversation around AGI and superintelligence, and 'middle powers' to start exerting themselves in the global conversation. internationalepolitik.de/de/goldene-z...

How can the law keep up with tech in the AI era❓ We recently hosted a convo with Prof Mimi Zou of UNSW at @crasshlive.bsky.social to mark the publication of 'The Cambridge Handbook of GenAI and the Law' from @cambridge.org. ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/cambridge-ha...

For the #CSCW2025 closing keynote, @ginasue.bsky.social discusses the myth of automation: automation uncovers and foregrounds current sociotechnical configurations. Technological innovation doesn't happen overnight, it's negotiated by people on the ground over time.

📢Come work with us: We’re looking for a research assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year project focused on developing a benchmark for measuring the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents on real-world data science tasks. Apply by 16 November. www.lcfi.ac.uk/get-involved...

Congratulations to Dr Tomasz Hollanek, Dr Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, and Dr Lorenzo Lorenzo Pacchiardi on their promotion to Assistant Research Professors at CFI 🎉 Check out their profiles on our website: www.lcfi.ac.uk/people

Join us for the screening of 'Hug Me Tight: A Robot Story', a film about older adults in South Korea who are living with Hyodol, a doll-shaped robot with electronic sensors and communication modules Followed by a Q&A with Producers Chihyung Jeon and Heesun Shin 6 Nov, 2-4pm https://bit.ly/4333PLd

We’re excited to announce the launch of Cambridge Elements in AI Ethics and Society! We’re now accepting proposals for short books (20-30k words) on AI ethics/impact/governance. They’ll be fully peer-reviewed, with a fast turnaround and good online and OA options. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

Six new faculty members have recently joined the Institute for Technology and Humanity's (ITH) three research centres – CFI, the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER). www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

In case you missed it, the clocks went back last night in the UK 🕰️ Do you think Chronophage at @corpuscambridge.bsky.social is enjoying the extra hour? 📸 Lloyd Mann

Is life too short? And can we make it longer? Read CFI Director Stephen Cave’s essay in the FT today. www.ft.com/content/6895...

As part of the Next Turing Tests conference we had a keynote by Google's James Manyika earlier today. For those who were not able to attend it, the recording is available here: www.youtube.com/live/7wMcgCp...

We've kicked off the first day of the Next Turing Tests conference with three workshops on behavioural science, future of work and trust at the beautiful King's College.

In the news: Dr Henry Shevlin is interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland (starts 16m 30s) about the AI-related “doom prepping” by some leading figures in the tech industry. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...?