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Projects

RAi UK has to date, invested more than £15M in a suite of research projects, led by multidisciplinary researchers drawn from over 30 universities across the UK, and working in partnership with Higher Education Institutions and non-academic partner organisations nationally and internationally.

Projects vary in their aims, size, scope, and duration, but are unified by their contribution to delivering the mission for RAI UK to establish world-leading best practices for how to design, evaluate, regulate, and operate AI-systems in ways that benefit people, society and the nation.

Our portfolio of projects are delivering research, knowledge exchange, and impact that transcends sectors, with extensive possibilities for cross-sector benefits.

Our research programme is structured as:

  • Keystone Projects: Large, multi-disciplinary collaborations that will tackle emerging concerns linked to generative and other forms of AI currently being built and deployed across society. Our Keystone Projects cover health and social care sectors, law enforcement, and financial services.

  • Collaboration Grants: Short term funding to support collaboration in the domain of Responsible Artificial Intelligence within 4 focus areas; AI Engineering; AI Skills; AI Sustainability; AI Deployment, Cost and Benefits.​

  • Cornerstone: A programme of research that complements and enhances the wider portfolio, led by RAi UK’s postdoctoral researchers.

  • Impact Accelerator Projects: Projects that maximise impact from existing responsible AI research to rapidly realise benefits for the economy, society, culture, policy, health, the environment, and quality of life.

  • International Partnerships Projects: Partnerships that develop strategic collaborations with world-leading research organisations to ensure society deploys and uses AI in a responsible way, beyond national boundaries.

  • Satellite Projects: Funded through additional investment by UKRI. The Satellite Projects looked at how responsible AI can help drive productivity and how public voices can be amplified in the design and deployment of AI technologies.

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Integrating Playful AI Literacy Learning Activities in Schools through Third-sector and Public-sector Organisations

Integrating Playful AI Literacy Learning Activities in Schools through Third-sector and Public-sector Organisations

In collaboration with third/public-sector actors, we will run public events engaging schoolchildren and their teachers in playful AI and Media...
Gaming Ethics Across Borders: Exploring Responsible AI Through Play

Gaming Ethics Across Borders: Exploring Responsible AI Through Play

This project uses a large, role-playing “megagame” to explore how people understand and trust AI. Building on a previous RAi...
Privacy-Preserving Governance and Ethical Assurance Framework for Decentralised Agentic AI in Pre-Litigation Analysis

Privacy-Preserving Governance and Ethical Assurance Framework for Decentralised Agentic AI in Pre-Litigation Analysis

This project explores how zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) can strengthen trust, fairness, and accountability in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms

A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms

Amidst a rapid proliferation of synthetic image- and video-based content in online ecosystems, our research addresses urgent gaps in understanding...
Assessing the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Gender Pay Gap

Assessing the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Gender Pay Gap

This project brings together the Centre for Protecting Women Online at the Open University (UK), Fawcett Society (UK), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), and...
Strengthening Governance and Practice for Responsible Geospatial AI

Strengthening Governance and Practice for Responsible Geospatial AI

Geospatial AI has rapidly advanced through foundation models such as the NASA–IBM Geospatial Foundation Model and the growing availability of...
Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Bias–mitigating Social Robots in Managing Robot Moderated Human–human Interactions

Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Bias–mitigating Social Robots in Managing Robot Moderated Human–human Interactions

This project extends a collaboration between Swansea and Kyoto Universities, initiated with support from the Japan Society for the Promotion...
Responsible Evaluation of Ambient Voice Technologies for Clinical Documentation in NHS Care

Responsible Evaluation of Ambient Voice Technologies for Clinical Documentation in NHS Care

This collaboration evaluates how ambient voice technologies (AVT) are implemented in NHS clinical settings and what organisational costs and benefits...
Measuring what matters: Scoping dimensions of measurement for responsible AI in the public sector

Measuring what matters: Scoping dimensions of measurement for responsible AI in the public sector

AI is becoming increasingly common in the public sector, but assessing the costs and benefits of AI applications frequently relies...
Trustworthy AI for All

Trustworthy AI for All

Trustworthy AI for All is a targeted three-month collaboration to design and validate a practical framework for national-level decision-making across...
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