Empowering And Connecting The Responsible AI Ecosystem

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Tuesday, 28 Apr 2026

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(Webinar) RAi Collaboration Grant Series: Responsible AI Skills

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Wednesday, 6 May 2026

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RAi Collaboration Grant Series: AI‑Driven Harms and Gender Pay Gap

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Thursday, 21 May 2026

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(Webinar) RAi Collaboration Grant Series: Responsible AI in Public Services

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Monday, 8 Jun 2026

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(Webinar) RAi UK Spotlight: Impact in Action

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Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

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(Webinar) RAi UK Spotlight: Strategy Update

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Monday, 22 Jun 2026

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(Webinar) RAi UK Spotlight: Early Career Research Highlights

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Monday, 29 Jun 2026

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(Webinar) RAi UK Spotlight: Research Update

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RAi Vision and Mission

Responsible AI UK is a research and innovation programme focused on addressing the most pressing challenges for the UK and the global community. We draw from our multi-disciplinary research programme to deliver novel frameworks, tools, and policy advice for the development and deployment of safe and responsible AI so that it benefits everyone in society.

Our Mission

RAi UK brings together researchers from across the four nations of the UK to understand how we should shape the development of AI to benefit people, communities and society.

It is an open, multidisciplinary network, drawing on a wide range of academic disciplines. This stems from our conviction that developing responsible AI will require…

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Projects

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Science, Innovation and Technology

RAKE: Responsible Innovation Advantage in Knowledge Exchange

Conducting research and innovation using Responsible Innovation (RI) involves collaboration with stakeholders; anticipatory governance; the consideration of impacts on people and the environment; reflection; and response. The inclusion of RI principles is therefore central to ‘responsible’ artificial intelligence, but RI training and interdisciplinary practices need to be developed if they…

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Governance, Regulation and Policy

AI Equality by Design, Deliberation and Oversight

This project will develop the theoretical foundations of ‘equality-by-design, deliberation and oversight’ (EbD) approaches to AI governance, striving to embed that knowledge into AI-standards by (1) representing European equality defenders in European AI standard-setting by CEN/CENELEC (2) empowering and equipping public equality defenders and other social stakeholders with the knowledge…

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Science, Innovation and Technology

RAISE: Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa

Building on insights developed across several ethical AI projects, notably the EU-funded projects SHERPA, and SIENNA, this work provides actionable guidance to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on how generative AI systems can be developed and used responsibly. By working with our SME partner Trilateral Research, (using the ‘with SMEs,…

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Cultural and Creative Industries

Amplify: Empowering Underserved Voices in Spoken Language Interaction

Speech is the richest, most precious form of human communication. But speech-based interactive systems are currently available for only a small fraction of the world’s languages. Consequently, hundreds of millions of people are being excluded globally. For the past three years we have worked with under-served “low-resource” language communities to…

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Health and Wellbeing

AEGIS: Automated Empathy‚ Globalising International Standards, Japan and Ethically Aligned Regions

Project AEGIS is a collaborative research initiative. Its high-level goal is to define a truly global ethical standard for AI systems that emulate empathy. These systems involve the ability of AI systems to detect, model, and respond to human emotional, intentional and other psychological states in ways that mimic empathic behaviour,…

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Education

SAGE-RAI: Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI

Can responsible Generative AI (GenAI) lead to improved student outcomes? SAGE-RAI investigated this critical question through a partnership between The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) and the Open Data Institute (ODI), developing and evaluating an AI Digital Assistant to enhance personalised learning at scale. Motivated by Bloom's 1984 study…

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Latest Reports 02

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Reports

ANNUAL REPORT 2024-25

As we reflect on 2024-25, we are immensely proud of the collective strides made in advancing responsible AI. This year has been defined by a concerted effort to translate our research vision into tangible, real-world impact, directly addressing the priorities and objectives we set out for each of our core pillars in the previous report.

Professor Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn FIET

CEO, RAi UK

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Reports

ANNUAL REPORT 2023-24

Vision to Reality : Responsible AI UK

“The AI landscape is changing rapidly, with new challenges emerging in a range of sectors, within government, industry and for society. RAi UK aims to be the trusted voice that they turn to for advice on how to develop and integrate AI into their processes, products, and daily lives to ensureAI is responsibly deployed and governed.”

Professor Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn FIET

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

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Thursday, 11 December 2025

Are AI researchers concerned about the existential threat of AI?

Are AI researchers concerned about the existential threat of AI? Our survey suggests not Ananya Karanam, University College London Introduction:...
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Friday, 28 November 2025

RRI and EDI into practice at RAi UK All Hands Meeting

RRI and EDI into practice: Lessons from Experience As part of the RAi UK all hands meeting held in Manchester...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Embedding inclusion in events on Responsible AI for Mental Health (RAI4MH)

Embedding inclusion in events on Responsible AI for Mental Health (RAI4MH) by Rafael Mestre (project lead), University of Southampton When...
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Monday, 29 September 2025

DOMINOS: Disruption Mitigation for ResponsibleAI

DOMINOS: Disruption Mitigation for Responsible AI by Radu Calinescu, project lead (University of York); Lina Marsso (University of Toronto’s Schwartz...
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Thursday, 31 July 2025

Connecting people with Ai in healthcare through ethical and inclusive conversations

Connecting people with AI in healthcare through ethical and inclusive conversations by Dr Raquel Iniesta (project lead), Kings College of...
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