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Festival of the Mind showcase to explore how AI shapes daily life

What does AI actually mean for our daily lives? Members of the public are invited to explore the real-world impact, social ethics, and future of AI at a special day-long showcase at the Festival of the Mind in November.
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Sheffield AI expert explains what needs to happen as GPs and police introduce chatbots

Dr Susan Oman says people must have a voice in how new technologies are introduced into public sector organisations, and explains to The Star why it matters.
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Hari Hara Subramanian speaking at the event

Sheffield researchers explore AI for research that matters

Researchers from across the University of Sheffield gathered on 1–2 October for AI for Research Days 2026: two days of talks, workshops and networking co-organised by the Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI), Dell Technologies and NVIDIA.
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Innovative project will use AI to help policymakers to recognise and counter disinformation

The ‘Polinoculate’ project will develop a freely accessible AI ‘coach’ to give policy stakeholders the tools to counter the rising problem of information manipulation, whilst safeguarding freedom of expression.
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Appointment of the Theme Lead in AI for Health for the Centre for Machine Intelligence

Dr Denis Newman-Griffis joins us as the new Theme Lead in AI for Health for the Centre for Machine Intelligence.
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Prof Roger Moore is on the What Do Robots Sound Like? podcast

Professor Roger Moore, Professor of Spoken Language Processing in the School of Computer Science, speaks to Ali Tocher in this long-form interview on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions.
Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.

Computer Science academics strengthen AI health research links with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

Dr Ning Ma and Professor Guy Brown from the School of Computer Science recently visited Zambia to initiate a second project that will research the potential of using AI analysis of cough sound to screen for tuberculosis (TB).

Understanding how robots could fit into the social fabric of human society

Meet Miro! This animal-like robot integrated with AI perception and language models featured at the University's Festival of the Mind 2024 and received lots of interest from the public interested in the possibility of robot companions.
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Computer Science student places highly at IBM TechXchange hackathon

Second-year Computer Science student, Shohail Ismail, recently placed 5th at the IBM TechXchange watsonx hackathon out of over 4,000 participants.