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Overview

Our approach to responsible AI research is led by consortia, addresses fundamental challenges with a multi-disciplinary and industrial perspective on responsible AI. By integrating insights from various industries and academic disciplines, our collaborative ethos extends to linking established research teams across the community. We prioritize early-stage and industry-led initiatives, seeking to expand the UK’s ecosystem and develop the next generation of AI leaders.

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.

Explore Our Research Programme

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    Projects

    RAi UK has a growing portfolio of interdisciplinary research projects, funded through a number of different calls, and working across a wider range of sectors, in the UK and internationally.

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    Cornerstone

    RAi UK’s Cornerstone complements and enhances the wider portfolio of RAi UK funded research. Led by our talented Early Career Researchers, these projects are co-created with stakeholders and refined through an iterative development process to ensure maximum impact and relevance.

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    Research Sandpits

    RAi UK follows the EPSRC Sandpit mechanism to form multidisciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations that tackle emerging concerns linked to generative and other forms of AI currently being built and deployed across society.

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    Research Publications

    A listing of research publications, authored by our funded projects, Early Career Researchers and the RAi UK leadership team.

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