BRAID UK
@braiduk.bsky.social
We are the Arts & Humanities Research Council programme working to enable a healthy Responsible AI ecosystem in the UK.
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EVENT INVITATION: Openness and AI roundtable, London, 24 November
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Openness and AI in culture, arts and humanities: a BRAID roundtable
Join us for a roundtable discussion to critically engage with the evolving intersections of openness, AI, and cultural knowledge.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
EVENT INVITATION: Openness and AI roundtable, London, 24 November
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NEW OPPORTUNITY:
We are seeking members to join our BRAID Stakeholder Forum, helping to shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK.
Information and details of how to submit your expression of interest can be found here:
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We are seeking members to join our BRAID Stakeholder Forum, helping to shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK.
Information and details of how to submit your expression of interest can be found here:
braiduk.org/braid-stakeh...
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
NEW OPPORTUNITY:
We are seeking members to join our BRAID Stakeholder Forum, helping to shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK.
Information and details of how to submit your expression of interest can be found here:
braiduk.org/braid-stakeh...
We are seeking members to join our BRAID Stakeholder Forum, helping to shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK.
Information and details of how to submit your expression of interest can be found here:
braiduk.org/braid-stakeh...
Can AI be truly creative?
Great to see BRAID Fellow @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social quoted, alongside other experts in the field, in this @nature.com feature on AI & creativity by Jo Marchant. Really enjoyed reading this, glad to hear a longer format piece on the way!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great to see BRAID Fellow @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social quoted, alongside other experts in the field, in this @nature.com feature on AI & creativity by Jo Marchant. Really enjoyed reading this, glad to hear a longer format piece on the way!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can AI be truly creative?
Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Can AI be truly creative?
Great to see BRAID Fellow @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social quoted, alongside other experts in the field, in this @nature.com feature on AI & creativity by Jo Marchant. Really enjoyed reading this, glad to hear a longer format piece on the way!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great to see BRAID Fellow @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social quoted, alongside other experts in the field, in this @nature.com feature on AI & creativity by Jo Marchant. Really enjoyed reading this, glad to hear a longer format piece on the way!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New paper from the team behind the BRAID Scoping project "AI in the street": Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New paper from the team behind the BRAID Scoping project "AI in the street": Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
BRAID researcher @ftollon.bsky.social's work features in the State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) Vol. 7, “AI at the Crossroads: A Practitioner’s Guide to Community-Centered Solutions,” published by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
BRAID researcher @ftollon.bsky.social's work features in the State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) Vol. 7, “AI at the Crossroads: A Practitioner’s Guide to Community-Centered Solutions,” published by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute.
Sharing a new paper from BRAID Fellow @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social & collaborators Steffen Holter & Mennatallah El-Assady: "Towards Agency in Human-AI Collaboration" in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sharing a new paper from BRAID Fellow @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social & collaborators Steffen Holter & Mennatallah El-Assady: "Towards Agency in Human-AI Collaboration" in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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Last week the United Nations Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development held a dialogue on the impact of artificial intelligence on creative industries, cultural rights, and the right to development.
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Last week the United Nations Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development held a dialogue on the impact of artificial intelligence on creative industries, cultural rights, and the right to development.
Gen AI & the novel: new report from @clemicollett.bsky.social examines how literary creatives are using (or not using) GenAI, how their work & income are affected, how this shapes their hopes & fears, & what measures govt might take to protect UK literary scene. Launch 20 Nov see linked post!
UPCOMING 📚 The Impact of GenAI on the Novel
Join us for the (online) launch of a new report from Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social (in assoc with @ifow.org) on how generative AI is impacting novelists and the publishing industry.
Book your spot ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/gener...
Join us for the (online) launch of a new report from Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social (in assoc with @ifow.org) on how generative AI is impacting novelists and the publishing industry.
Book your spot ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/gener...
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gen AI & the novel: new report from @clemicollett.bsky.social examines how literary creatives are using (or not using) GenAI, how their work & income are affected, how this shapes their hopes & fears, & what measures govt might take to protect UK literary scene. Launch 20 Nov see linked post!
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Coming up this Thursday, an excellent event about AI & cultural heritage research org by @amsichani.bsky.social & @braiduk.bsky.social. Reg still open! Featuring fab speakers incl @ruthahnert.bsky.social @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social @jnockels.bsky.social @danielvanstrien.bsky.social & more
New forum ‘Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum’ on Thu 6 Nov 2025, Senate House (hybrid) from BRAID Fellow @amsichani.bsky.social with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Find out more/register here:
bit.ly/4mUdESC
Find out more/register here:
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BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum
This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Coming up this Thursday, an excellent event about AI & cultural heritage research org by @amsichani.bsky.social & @braiduk.bsky.social. Reg still open! Featuring fab speakers incl @ruthahnert.bsky.social @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social @jnockels.bsky.social @danielvanstrien.bsky.social & more
New article from BRAID fellow @bevt.bsky.social on governance-by-design as an enabler of AI in digital health in sub-Saharan Africa lthj.qut.edu.au/article/view...
Law, Technology and Humans
Law, Technology and Humans provides an inclusive and unique forum for exploration of the broader connections, history and emergent future of law and technology through supporting research that takes s...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New article from BRAID fellow @bevt.bsky.social on governance-by-design as an enabler of AI in digital health in sub-Saharan Africa lthj.qut.edu.au/article/view...
What are the biggest challenges & opportunities for public service media when it comes to digital technology and innovation? New report series from our collaborators at RIC including 'Responsible AI & Public Service Journalism' from BRAID's @bronwynjo.bsky.social
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📚 The Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Future's six-part scoping report series is out now! 📚
We've drawn on insights of over 100 experts to set out some of the biggest challenges & opportunities for public media in digital technology and innovation, including...
We've drawn on insights of over 100 experts to set out some of the biggest challenges & opportunities for public media in digital technology and innovation, including...
October 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
What are the biggest challenges & opportunities for public service media when it comes to digital technology and innovation? New report series from our collaborators at RIC including 'Responsible AI & Public Service Journalism' from BRAID's @bronwynjo.bsky.social
downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/responsib...
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Excited to be heading to Amsterdam to present some work that @loehrgui.bsky.social and I have been sketching out on AI assertion.
We suggest that some AI chatbots might be answerable, thus rendering them capable of asserting. Strange stuff.
#philsky #AIethics
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We suggest that some AI chatbots might be answerable, thus rendering them capable of asserting. Strange stuff.
#philsky #AIethics
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October 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Excited to be heading to Amsterdam to present some work that @loehrgui.bsky.social and I have been sketching out on AI assertion.
We suggest that some AI chatbots might be answerable, thus rendering them capable of asserting. Strange stuff.
#philsky #AIethics
www.pt-ai.org/2025/program...
We suggest that some AI chatbots might be answerable, thus rendering them capable of asserting. Strange stuff.
#philsky #AIethics
www.pt-ai.org/2025/program...
How does artificial intelligence “see” us, and what does it tell us about who we are?
On 1 Nov at Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham, explore new works by Kiki Shervington-White and Luca Zheng that examine how machine vision classifies, interprets, and (mis)recognises people.
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On 1 Nov at Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham, explore new works by Kiki Shervington-White and Luca Zheng that examine how machine vision classifies, interprets, and (mis)recognises people.
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The AI Gaze - Seeing Ourselves Through Machines: Film Screening and Interactive Installation · Luma
How does artificial intelligence “see” us, and what does it tell us about who we are?
The AI Gaze brings together two connected works that examine how machine…
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October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How does artificial intelligence “see” us, and what does it tell us about who we are?
On 1 Nov at Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham, explore new works by Kiki Shervington-White and Luca Zheng that examine how machine vision classifies, interprets, and (mis)recognises people.
bit.ly/3Lk10zb
On 1 Nov at Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham, explore new works by Kiki Shervington-White and Luca Zheng that examine how machine vision classifies, interprets, and (mis)recognises people.
bit.ly/3Lk10zb
Are you involved in sustainability reporting, ESG, or carbon accounting? As part of the BRAID Sustainable AI Futures project, & together with Digital Catapult, the team are holding an exploratory in-person workshop to understand what happens when reporting meets AI. Register here:
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bit.ly/4nWPp7J
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October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Are you involved in sustainability reporting, ESG, or carbon accounting? As part of the BRAID Sustainable AI Futures project, & together with Digital Catapult, the team are holding an exploratory in-person workshop to understand what happens when reporting meets AI. Register here:
bit.ly/4nWPp7J
bit.ly/4nWPp7J
We're hiring at BRAID UK!
Exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to lead work around the social return on AI investment, working closely with @ewaluger.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...
Applications open. Closes 7 Nov, Interviews 9 Dec.
Exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to lead work around the social return on AI investment, working closely with @ewaluger.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...
Applications open. Closes 7 Nov, Interviews 9 Dec.
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We're hiring at BRAID UK!
Exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to lead work around the social return on AI investment, working closely with @ewaluger.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...
Applications open. Closes 7 Nov, Interviews 9 Dec.
Exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to lead work around the social return on AI investment, working closely with @ewaluger.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...
Applications open. Closes 7 Nov, Interviews 9 Dec.
Leaky bodies and touchy software - a concert and exhibition opening featuring new music that explores instruments, bodies, software and hardware.
This new work from BRAID Fellow Martin Parker and Xenia Pestova is live at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 15 October.
bit.ly/46W1CCl
This new work from BRAID Fellow Martin Parker and Xenia Pestova is live at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 15 October.
bit.ly/46W1CCl
LinkedIn
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October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Leaky bodies and touchy software - a concert and exhibition opening featuring new music that explores instruments, bodies, software and hardware.
This new work from BRAID Fellow Martin Parker and Xenia Pestova is live at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 15 October.
bit.ly/46W1CCl
This new work from BRAID Fellow Martin Parker and Xenia Pestova is live at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 15 October.
bit.ly/46W1CCl
A short satirical play, 'Page Against the Machine', by BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social & @Clare Duffy (Civic Digits C.I.C), will showcase at @byleaveswelive.bsky.social in Edinburgh on 6/7 Nov as part of this year's @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
Find out more/book here:
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Find out more/book here:
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Page Against The Machine
A comedy-drama about AI by Clare Duffy (Civic Digits Theatre Company) & Pip Thornton, brought to the SPL as part of the Being Human Festival
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October 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A short satirical play, 'Page Against the Machine', by BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social & @Clare Duffy (Civic Digits C.I.C), will showcase at @byleaveswelive.bsky.social in Edinburgh on 6/7 Nov as part of this year's @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
Find out more/book here:
bit.ly/47fyzeh
Find out more/book here:
bit.ly/47fyzeh
Brilliant to see BRAID Scoping project 'Shared-Posthuman Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation' outcomes moving forward via new funding. Coming soon: UK's 1st responsible AI e-learning course for Film&TV professionals. Congrats @ruszev.bsky.social
& team on industry implementation!
& team on industry implementation!
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Brilliant to see BRAID Scoping project 'Shared-Posthuman Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation' outcomes moving forward via new funding. Coming soon: UK's 1st responsible AI e-learning course for Film&TV professionals. Congrats @ruszev.bsky.social
& team on industry implementation!
& team on industry implementation!
New forum ‘Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum’ on Thu 6 Nov 2025, Senate House (hybrid) from BRAID Fellow @amsichani.bsky.social with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Find out more/register here:
bit.ly/4mUdESC
Find out more/register here:
bit.ly/4mUdESC
BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum
This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.
bit.ly
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New forum ‘Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum’ on Thu 6 Nov 2025, Senate House (hybrid) from BRAID Fellow @amsichani.bsky.social with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Find out more/register here:
bit.ly/4mUdESC
Find out more/register here:
bit.ly/4mUdESC
Congratulations to artists Identity 2.0, selected as the first guest zine to be included in the @dairinstitute.bsky.social Zine Library. 'Conversations about resistance and generative AI' can be downloaded here: zines.dair-institute.org/ai-z Image courtesy of the DAIR website.
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Congratulations to artists Identity 2.0, selected as the first guest zine to be included in the @dairinstitute.bsky.social Zine Library. 'Conversations about resistance and generative AI' can be downloaded here: zines.dair-institute.org/ai-z Image courtesy of the DAIR website.
It's one month since we wrapped up Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI, our exhibition featuring seven new artworks by artists from across the UK. Here BRAID community member Alasdair Milne offers his reflections on the exhibition in a new blog.
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Reflecting on Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI
7 — 31 August 2025 | Inspace Gallery, EdinburghIn the summer of 2025, Bridging Responsible AI Divides staged an exhibition of newly commissioned artworks on the theme of Responsible AI by artist
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October 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's one month since we wrapped up Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI, our exhibition featuring seven new artworks by artists from across the UK. Here BRAID community member Alasdair Milne offers his reflections on the exhibition in a new blog.
braiduk.org/reflecting-o...
braiduk.org/reflecting-o...
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Great to see the 'Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage research' work included in BRAID's submission to the UN.
Congratulations to the team of BRAID Researchers who have been cited in a recent report on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity published by the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Alexandra Xanthaki. Further details in the linked post by @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social
Delighted that my contribution and the submission with Kate Milner, Martin Parker, @kyrill.bsky.social, Anna-Maria Sichani and @paulawest.bsky.social as part of @braiduk.bsky.social are cited in the report on AI and creativity of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2
September 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Great to see the 'Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage research' work included in BRAID's submission to the UN.
Congratulations to the team of BRAID Researchers who have been cited in a recent report on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity published by the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Alexandra Xanthaki. Further details in the linked post by @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social
Delighted that my contribution and the submission with Kate Milner, Martin Parker, @kyrill.bsky.social, Anna-Maria Sichani and @paulawest.bsky.social as part of @braiduk.bsky.social are cited in the report on AI and creativity of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Congratulations to the team of BRAID Researchers who have been cited in a recent report on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity published by the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Alexandra Xanthaki. Further details in the linked post by @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social
Fantastic new essay from BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social who’s project, Writing the Wrongs of AI, collaborating with @edbookfest.bsky.social explores creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of AI.
bit.ly/46oGcPr
bit.ly/46oGcPr
Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal
This essay by artist and researcher Pip Thornton documents and debates some of the outputs of ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI), a project which explored creative ways to demonstrate the power that hu...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Fantastic new essay from BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social who’s project, Writing the Wrongs of AI, collaborating with @edbookfest.bsky.social explores creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of AI.
bit.ly/46oGcPr
bit.ly/46oGcPr
And latest paper from BRAID Fellow @bevt.bsky.social and collaborators exploring members of the public's views on Medical AI adoption and perceived sociotechnical harm and making recommendations for change.
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Frontiers | Cautious optimism: public voices on medical AI and sociotechnical harm
BackgroundMedical-purpose software and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)-enabled technologies (“medical AI”) raise important social, ethical, cultural, and regu...
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September 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
And latest paper from BRAID Fellow @bevt.bsky.social and collaborators exploring members of the public's views on Medical AI adoption and perceived sociotechnical harm and making recommendations for change.
bit.ly/46x4V2D
bit.ly/46x4V2D