Temitope Lawal provided this takeaway message from the UK AI Research Symposium in Newcastle “Probabilistic AI tools are already present across several stages of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, from community policing to probation.

Yesterday, our Probable Futures team members, Evdoxia Taka, Temitope Lawal, Michele Sevegnani and Marion Oswald organized a panel discussion and presented part of the project's work on the topic "Probabilistic AI in Criminal Justice: Mapping the Ecosystem and Scoping for the Future"

Looking forward to day two of the UK AI Research Symposium hashtag#UKAIRS2025, hosted here at Northumbria: @ukri.org www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

🎓 New PhD opportunity at @UofGlasgow! Explore the responsible use of LLMs in high-stakes decision-making—think law enforcement, policy, and more. Fully funded, starting Nov 2025.

Can AI ever truly understand suspicion? As AI tools increasingly shape how police forces operate—particularly in Stop & Search—the stakes are high. Whose judgement are we trusting? Who is accountable when algorithms misjudge? And how do we challenge AI-generated suspicion in court?

'AI, the Evolution and Responses to Crime': Read our latest blog article written by Dr. Temitope Lawal and Katherine Jones which focuses on criminal innovation, mapping technology in policing, and the need for regulatory reform tinyurl.com/249curv5

Prof Marion Oswald expertly chairing the discussion panel Q&A. Broad representation, fascinating insights.

Getting ready for the launch of the Northumbria Centre for Responsible AI this morning #AInorthumbria @northumbriauni.bsky.social @probablefutures.bsky.social

Northumbria Centre for Responsible AI launches today. The breadth and depth of content in the posters showcasing all of the linked and highly relevant AI research taking place across the University campus is a truly great thing to be part of!

Study identifies attitudes towards personal data processing for national security. Revealing how the use of an independent Data Ethics Advisory Committee by West Midlands Police has transformed the understanding of how to achieve responsible Ai in policing. Read More: tinyurl.com/bddxkfsc

Details of the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Trustworthiness and Risk Assessment Scientific Seminar Series (ATRASS) being coordinated by RAi UK. Register via this link rai.ac.uk/atrass-series/

Submissions open for the UKAIRS Research Symposium Deadline: 30.04.25 UKAIRS welcomes different disciplines unified by the goal of shaping the UK’s research priorities, identifying cross-fertilisation opportunities & informing the narrative of the challenges to delivering AI that benefits society

Continuing the Australian theme, last week we welcomed the esteemed Chief Judge Brian Preston to Northumbria. As the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales Australia. We had the pleasure of listening to his seminar & speak 1:1 about research intersections in Ai & Technology

Dr Angela Paul recently touched back down in the UK to re-join the PROBabLE Futures team based @northumbriauni.bsky.social following her research visit to the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Australia. Read about her visit & insights 'Exploring the Intersection of Technology & Law Enforcement'

Deadline Extended! The deadline has been extended for our CIS Research Fellow Role @northumbriauni.bsky.social Please apply before 27/03/2025, 23:59

It was a pleasure to deliver an engaging workshop in collaboration with CETaS (the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security) this week at the The Alan Turing Institute inside of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Thank you to the speakers and audience for making it so informative and insightful!

Great event today with the @probablefutures.bsky.social team presenting some great work from our project, but also some great #AI future horizon scanning. Amazing work going on!

We are a growing inter-disciplinary research group and are looking to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computer and Information Sciences based at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Find out more about the role and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/35enbdrf closing on 20/03/2025

Thank you to those who attended our first online event 'AI for intelligence, investigations and public protection' earlier in 2025. It was amazing to see such a diverse array of attendance and interest in our research. Read our follow-up Blogpost which captures the key topics tinyurl.com/yk52ycwy

Importance of ‘Responsibility’. Attention must be paid to the chaining of systems and cumulative effects of AI systems feeding each other. We are reviewing, questioning & evaluating the use & applications of probabilistic AI across different stages of law enforcement & the criminal justice system.

Why ‘Probabilistic’? Probabilistic systems supported by AI, such as facial recognition, predictive tools or LLMs are being introduced into law enforcement. Uncertain or probable nature of outputs can be obscured or misinterpreted, and the underlying data is sensitive and of varying quality.

PROBabLE Futures stands for 'Probabilistic AI Systems in Law Enforcement Futures'. We are a 4 year £3.4M Keystone Project Funded by Responsible Ai UK researching responsible AI in law enforcement led by Northumbria and involving Glasgow, Northampton, Leicester, Aberdeen and Cambridge Universities.