UofG lends support to UK projects to address challenge of rapid AI advances

Researchers from the University of Glasgow will play leading roles in projects supported by £12m in new funding from Responsible AI UK (RAi UK).
Glasgow computing scientists are involved in two of the three new initiatives announced by RAi UK during the CogX conference in Los Angeles.
The projects will look to tackle emerging concerns of generative and other forms of AI currently being built and deployed across society.
Dr Simone Stumpf will lead the £3.5m Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM) project. Meanwhile, Professor Dame Muffy Calder and Dr Michele Sevegnani will play key roles in PROBabLE Futures - Probabilistic AI Systems in Law Enforcement Futures, a £3.5m project led by the University of Northumbria.
RAi UK is led from the University of Southampton and backed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), through the UKRI Technology Missions Fund and EPSRC. UKRI has also committed an additional £4m of funding to further support these initiatives.
The PHAWM project brings together 25 researchers from seven leading UK universities with 23 partner organisations.
The University of Glasgow will lead the consortium, with support from colleagues at the Universities of Edinburgh, Sheffield, Stirling, Strathclyde, York and King’s College London.
Together, they will develop new methods for maximising the potential benefits of predictive and generative AI while minimising their potential for harm arising from bias and ‘hallucinations’, where AI tools present false or invented information as fact.
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