Beyond the algorithm: Shaping AI for people, not just progress

Explore the impact of artificial intelligence on society — from reimagining creativity to transforming law and challenging ethical frameworks, this campaign reveals both the promise and the peril of AI.

The human cost of AI - profit over protection

From fatal self-driving car crashes to innocent people jailed by biased facial recognition, AI is already having real-world consequences. Yet, the race for profit continues.

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Shaping AI for people

"While AI’s foundations are often framed in terms of data, engineering, and computational power, its most profound questions are human ones. How should AI behave? Whose values should it reflect?"

How we are shaping AI for people, not just progress

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Frankenstein’s Warning in Today’s AI Landscape

Have we failed to head Mary Shelley's warnings about the pursuit of science for science's sake? Andy Bell, Head of Research and Innovation with the University of Sheffield AMRC, suggests we may have...

Cutting edge research in AI

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is harnessing the transformative potential of AI — with a steadfast commitment to centering people in it's design and dissemination to reduce harm and risk.

Beyond the algorithm - new video series

The human cost of AI - profit over protection

Philosopher Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen, Digital Humanities scholar Kate Simpson and Andy Bell, Head of Research & Innovation at the AMRC, challenge the reckless speed of developments—highlighting fatalities from self-driving cars and faulty facial recognition landing innocent people in prison.

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How AI Is changing music: creativity, copyright, and the future of songwriting

Nikki Dibben, Professor of Music, and Guy Brown, Professor of Computer Science, dive into the fast-evolving relationship between AI and music, asking the big questions about where creativity meets computation.

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AI lawyers are here – can you trust artificial intelligence for legal help?

As the demand for legal support continues to rise, could AI be part of the solution—or is it a risk we can't afford? Our law students have been working with Sheffield Citizens Advice and Law Centre.

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Research centres

Centre for machine Inteligence (CMI)

At the Centre of Machine Intelligence (CMI), we recognise the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and advocate the importance of its responsible development.

CMI

Muses Mind Machine

Muses Mind Machine is transforming the understanding and employment of the arts to support human flourishing. We use interdisciplinary knowledge and methods, including AI, to address some of the most challenging questions faced by practitioners, citizens and policymakers today.

Muses Mind Machine

Framing Responsible AI Implementation and Management (FRAIM)

The Framing Responsible AI Implementation and Management (FRAIM) project is bringing together cross-sector perspectives on organisational RAI policy and process to scope key stakeholders, shared values, and actionable research needs for building the evidence base on implementing and managing RAI.

FRAIM