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Professor Anna Korhonen, Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) and Co-Director of ITH, elected as a Fellow at the British Academy.Professor Korhonen’s election reflects her pioneering contributions to artificial intelligence, natural language processing and interdisciplinary research, as well as her commitment to …

A recently established AI Act Scientific Panel at the European Union (EU) appointed 60 independent experts, including academics from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI). Professor Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Assistant Research Professor Lorenzo Pacchiardi, and Professor José Hernández-Orallo, and former CFI members Charlotte Stix an…

A new AI for Social Good project is exploring how artificial intelligence and human expertise can work together to support safer, more proactive management of social housing across the UK.Co-developed by CHIA Executive Director, Dr Ramit Debnath, PRISM is led by Professor Ronita Bardhan and Dr Adhib Hussain Syed in collaboration with Cambridge City…

A new research initiative launched at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) with a philanthropic gift from Virgin Media O2.Digital technologies are part of everyday life, but there’s little evidence about how newer forms of AI affect our wellbeing. The funding will enable the establishment of a Digital Wellbeing Observatory, ai…

The results from the SCORE project - a major international collaboration on research credibility and repeatability - are now out in a special collection in Nature. Dr Alex Marcoci, Assistant Professor in Global Risk and Resilience, contributed to the team generating the human predictions of replicability, and is a co-author on 3 newly released prep…

Anthony Torres-Ruesta, Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), has been selected to attend the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, taking place in June 2026.The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings were established in 1951 as an international forum to exchange knowledge between nations, cultures and disciplines, fosteri…

Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, has started a new role as Executive Director at the Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA). Dr Debnath will support the Centre’s strategic priorities and operations.Dr Debnath specialises in human-centric AI for climate and sustainability, integrating computatio…

New initiative – Cambridge Digital Minds – has launched at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) to explore the societal, ethical, and governance implications of digital minds.Dr Lucius Caviola, Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI, who leads the initiative, commented: “Cambridge Digital Minds brings together philoso…

Last week, Professor Anna Korhonen, Director of Centre for Human Inspired AI (CHIA) and co-director of ITH, was formally appointed to the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence. Established by the United Nations General Assembly, the Panel is the first global, fully independent scientific body dedicated…

Dr Rachel Adams has been appointed Research Professor and Executive Director at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI).Starting this week Dr Rachel Adams will act as CFI’s Executive Director while Professor Stephen Cave, the Academic Director of CFI, serves as co-Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH).Dr Rac…

Six new faculty members have recently joined the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH), University of Cambridge. All three research centres at ITH – the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) have welcomed new…

The Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH) is committed to raising awareness of environmental issues and improving sustainability. We have established a Green Team, which leads initiatives to reduce our environmental impact and promote sustainable practices across the Institute.In 2025, the ITH Green Team was proud to receive the Bronze Award,…

A new book by CFI’s Dr Maya Indira Ganesh offers an in-depth examination of the cultural and ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence, with a focus on autonomous systems like driverless cars.​The book explores how and if ethics can be integrated into driverless cars and examines the infamous trolley problem – an ethical dilemma once propo…

A new Institute at University of Cambridge launched aiming to meet the challenges and opportunities of new technologies. Three research centres- the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA),  the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) - are now part of Institut…

A new multi-year research agreement creates the potential for researchers and scientists from Google and the University of Cambridge Centre for Human Inspired AI (CHIA) to more closely collaborate on foundational AI research projects in areas of shared interest across a range of disciplines, including climate and sustainability, and AI ethics and s…