Enabling Advanced Autonomy through Human-AI Collaboration

Researchers at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh are leading a collaboration with the University of the West of England and the University of Oxford which will lay the foundations for the next generation of AI systems capable of providing new levels of autonomy, understand the ethical and societal implications of increased autonomy, and build a roadmap and UK community to support a future major UK initiative in this area.

Their work builds on many ideas developed as part of the emerging Edinburgh Laboratory for Integrated AI , which focuses the integration of different machine learning and symbolic reasoning modules to enable human-like reasoning in AI systems.

The project is part of The Alan Turing Institute’s AI Programme, and is supported by funding from EPSRC and The University of Edinburgh.

Call To Action

While the project will pursue one specific approach to exemplify the potential of new approaches in terms of unlocking a step change in autonomy, their wider ambition is to build a UK-wide community of researchers working across all areas of AI and interested in developing a long-term research agenda for the wider area.

If you are interested in participating in our activities, please complete the form at https://forms.office.com/r/ZkQhvTNyzY and/or contact Michael Rovatsos (project lead) directly.