Forthcoming
To be held on January 14-16, 2025, at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK as part of the AISB 2025 Covention.
This resolutely interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore from a philosophical perspective the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence as well as actual and potential benefits, with a keen interest in normative, ethical and epistemological approaches.
Click here for more information about the Symposium and the Call for Papers.
Tuesday, 15-10-2024, City, University of London, 10:00-13:00 GMT.
With the announcement of the new City St George’s University of London, we are re-launching City’s Artificial Intelligence Research Centre as CitAI St George’s. As a ubiquitous general-purpose technology, AI comes with great opportunities and important challenges that City St George’s is uniquely positioned to benefit from and help tackle.
This is the ideal time to position ourselves as a UK leader in the area. CitAI St George’s will serve as the new university’s AI Hub with the following main objectives:
We will be holding our first meeting on the 15th of October in the morning at AG02, with representatives from all City schools and former St George’s:
At this meeting, we will establish a structure and communication channels to coordinate our efforts –with an agenda to identify and manage research opportunities that will generate funding, outputs and impact cases.
If you are interested in participating in this new adventure, you can join us on-line. Please contact CitAI St George’s Director and Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Eduardo Alonso at E.Alonso@city.ac.uk.
Events 2024
Tuesday, 07-09-2024, Online, 15:00-14:00 GMT.
Eduardo Alonso(CitAI) participated in a Times Higher Education webinar that explored the risks entailed by the dramatic technological advancements for education, particularly those brought up by AI systems and potential solutions to strengthen safety in research.
A full recording of the event can be access by clicking on the image below:
Monday, 08-07-2024, City, University of London, 10:00-13:00 GMT.
CitAI is organising a brainstorming session the 8th of July 2024, to initiate a debate on Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. We will be discussing the main topics as well as ways to set up a national network that would facilitate debate and the dissemination of outputs and events.
Participants:
Eduardo Alonso (CitAI)
Brian Ball (Northeastern University London)
Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck, University of London)
Stefan Sarkadi (King’s College London)
Esther Mondragón (CitAI)
David Tena Cucala (University of Oxford)
David Gamez (Middlesex University London)
Monday, 22-07-2024, City, University of London, 09:00-18:00 GMT.
CitAI, The City Law School, and The University of Szeged are organising the 22nd of July 2024 a workshop with renown international scholars on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, to discuss the legal challenges posed by this general purpose technology, the last developments in the field and to outline proposals for regulation and enforcement of AI services and platforms. As outputs, we are planning to publish a book with contributions from the workshop and study the possibility of setting up and European AI and IP society.
Chairs: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI), Enrico Bonadio (The City Law School) and Peter Mezei (The University of Szeged)
Participants and topic:
Eduardo Alonso (CitAI), AI and IP Opening Remarks
Ryan Abbott (University of Surrey, UK), Intellectual Property Protection for AI-Generated Output
Pablo Fernandez Carballo-Calero (Universidad de Vigo, Spain), Protection of AI outputs: a comparative approach
Ioanna Lapatoura (UCL, UK), AI and trademark law - artificial fashion
Francesca Mazzi (Brunel University, UK), AI, IP and Sustainable Development Goals
Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex, UK), Do you own your voice? The challenges of AI voice cloning
Caterina Sganga (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy), AI and authors’ fair remuneration
Noam Shemtov (Queen Mary University, UK), AI copyright and fair use
Philipp Homar (WU Vienna, Austria), AI and TDM
Giancarlo Frosio (Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland), Algorithmic enforcement (DSA, Art 17 and copyright)
Peter Mezei (University of Szeged, Hungary), Memorization as a copyright use?
Joao Pedro Quintais (University of Amsterdam, IViR, the Netherlands), AI Act and Copyright Acquisition
Antoni Rubi Puíg (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Model disgorgement as a remedy for copyright infringement
Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London, UK) & Siri-Helen Egeland (Universitetet i Agder, Norway), AI copyright challenges and opportunities for artists (ethnographic, empirical)
Giulia Priora (NOVA University, Portugal), AI and public domain
Nicola Lucchi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Trademarks and AI
Zoi Krokida (Brunel University, UK), Trademarks and AI
Xiao Baiyang (University of Szeged, Hungary), Chinese IP regulation and case law on AI
Magali Contardi (Dirpolis Institute of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy), AI, patents and medical products
Hasan Kadir Yılmaztekin (Justice Academy of Turkey), Designs and AI
Salvatore Fasciana (University of Sussex, UK), Protecting AI through Trade Secret, and Protecting Trade Secret from AI
Friday, 28-06-2024, Ada Lovelace Room, City, University of London, 09:00-17:00 GMT.
CitAI is organising an AI workshop the 28th of June 2024, where scholars and the AI art-world will explore the state of the art in Non-Generative AI art and discuss future developments in a market dominated by GenAI technology. The event will pivot around four themes, namely, Non-Generative AI Systems, Robotics, Interactive AI, and Critical AI.
Chair: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI)
Participants:
Shinji Toya (artist)
Luba Elliott (curator)
Martin Zeilinger (Abertay University)
Frederic Fol Leymarie (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Licia He (The Generative Craft Lab LTD)
Gretchen Andrew (artist)
Sarah Selby (University of the Arts London)
Joana Chicau (University of the Arts London, Creative Computing Institute)
Studio Above&Below (artists, Daria Jelonek, Perry-James Sugden)
Helen Knowles (Northumbria University)
Tobias Revell (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Wesley Goatley (artist)
Wednesday, 06-03-2024, B200 LT, City, University of London, 09:00-17:00 GMT.
This event aimed at showcasing the AI research conducted at City, University of London, a member of the Turing University Network. As a Fringe Event, it was collocated with the AI UK conference and organised by The Alan Turing Institute. Speakers included Prof. Francesca Toni (Imperial College London), Prof. Michael Fisher (University of Manchester), Dr. Marc Serramia Amoros, Prof. Caroline Li, Dr. Robert Noble, Dr. Pranava Madhyastha, Prof. Neil Maiden, Dr. Christina Malamateniou, Prof. Franklyn Howe, Dr Stephanie Alice Baker, Prof. Robin Bloomfield and Prof. Andrea Baronchelli.
Full recording of the sessions accessible here
Tuesday, 23-01-2024, Ada Lovelace, City, University of London, 11:00-17:00 GMT.
Organized by NCACE, the IJAD Dance Company and CitAI, researchers, artists, producers, technologists, curators, funders and policy-makers joined in a day of knowledge exchange, discussion and ideation on the present and future of Hybrid (Human-AI) Performance.
Neil Maiden, Professor of Digital Creativity & Director of the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI), City, University of London; Joumana Mourad, Artistic Director, IJAD; Eduardo Alonso, Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science Research Director, City University London; Suzie Leighton , Co-Director NCACE and TCCE; Rachel Drury, Director and Co-Founder of Collusion; Joanna Bucknall, Lecturer (Department of Drama and Theatre Arts), University of Birmingham; Lucy Bayliss, Head of Creative Programmes, Dance East.
Events 2023
Tuesday, 03-10-2023, AG12 room, City, University of London, 15:00-17:00 GMT.
CitAI organised an AI workshop the 3rd of October 2023, where scholars and the AI art-wolrd explored novel ideas to fund AI art in the UK. The event resulted in the formation of two groups (each with a curator, and artist and an academic, an in collaboration with galleries) dedicated to the preparing two UKRI proposals.
Chair: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI).Participants: Hannah Andrews (British Council), Mila Askarova (Gazelli Art House), Luba Elliott (AI art curator), Beverley Hood (Edinburgh College of Art, UKRI BRAID), Eva Jäger (The Serpentine), Laura McFarlane (Arts Council England), Marie McPartlin (Somerset House), Caroline Sinders (artist), Lucy Sollitt (curator), Nye Thompson (artist), Paula Westenberger (Brunel University London), and Eduardo Alonso (Turing University Liaison, City, University of London)
Wednesday, 07-06-2023, Ada Lovelace room, City, University of London, 09:00-17:00 GMT.
Attendance is by invitation only. Webinar hosted by CitAI and The Alan Turing Institute.
Chair: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI).CitAI and The Alan Turing Institute brought together artists, curators, critics, scholars, and companies to promote AI art in the UK, to openly discuss the formation of a network that will facilitate the exchange of ideas as well as to explore opportunities for collaboration.
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Tuesday, 14-03-2023, (Zoom; 14:00-15:00 GMT)
Webinar hosted by TCCE and CitAI.
Chair: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI). Speakers: Karl Woolley, Mattias Frey, Aoi Nakamura & Esteban Lecoq, and Sahil Dhingra.In this discursive and informal event, we considered how AI is impacting questions of performance, in particular whether performance itself can be changed through engaging with and assimilating AI on the dance and film industries. We examined cultural touring companies and their use of digital media, and whether technology can address the increasing challenges of touring live work, and help audiences access performance. We also considered the use of AI during film production including in pre- and post-production, audience engagement and AI, as well as showcasing some pioneering work being undertaken across the creative and cultural industries.
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Events 2022
Thursday, 29-09-2022, (Live and Zoom; 14:00-15:30 BST)
Public lecture by Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, CBE FREng, organised by CitAI and the Emerging Technologies Research Network at The City Law School.
Chairs: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI) and Patrick Goold (The City Law School). Speaker: Anthony Finkelstein (President of City, University of London).
Tuesday, 13-09-2022.
Workshop organised by CitAI and The City Law School. Sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute, Turing Network Development Award.
Chairs: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI), Enrico Bonadio (The City Law School) and Caterina Sganga (Sant’Anna). Speakers: Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex), Péter Mezei (University of Szeged), Ioanna Lapatoura (University of Nottingham), Giancarlo Frosio (Queen’s University Belfast), Anthony O'Dwyer (Queen’s University Belfast), Antoni Rubí-Puig (Pompeu Fabra University), Domenico Quaranta (Catholic University of Milan), Zoi Krokida (University of Stirling), Balázs Bodó (University of Amsterdam), Joost Poort (University of Amsterdam), Martin Zeilinger (Abertay University), Alana Kushnir (The Serpentine), Peter Yu (Texas A&M University), Primavera De Filippi (Harvard University) and Patrick Goold (The City Law School).
The workshop will consider the challenges posed by the irruption of NFT crypto art, and its impact on copyright and intellectual property regimes. In particular, issues at the intersection between AI, smart contracts, data science, copyright law, business and social sciences will be discussed. Indeed, there are ongoing debates around what the ownership of NFTs give collectors under copyright law; if creating and distributing NFTs violates copyright and moral rights; the liability of NFTs platforms; the impact on authenticity rules and counterfeiting; the ethical and philosophical aspects of creating, distributing, and collecting NFTs within the copyright framework.
Wednesday, 27-07-2022, (Zoom; 10:25-11:40 BST)
Plenary Session on “NFTs and the Rise of Digital Assets”, GlobalWIIN Conference 2022
Chair: Eduardo Alonso. Speakers: Hayleigh Bosher, James Faktor, Maria Esmeralda Palaganas and Yasmin Alhilli.Thursday, 23-06-2022, (Zoom; 11:00-12:00 BST)
Webinar organised jointly with the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
Chair: Eduardo Alonso.
Speakers: Giacomo Tarroni, Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro, and Alex-Ter Sarkisov.
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Tuesday, 24-05-2022, (Zoom; 14:00-15:30 BST)
Webinar hosted by TCCE and CitAI.
Chair: Dr Eduardo Alonso. Speakers: Dr Jeneen Naji, Bronac Ferran, Nick Makoha and Sasha Stiles.In this two-part webinar we will explore new trends in digital poetry, more specifically, AI-generated poetry and how the blockchain is being used to circulate and sell poetry. We will consider two questions: What way might NFTs and the block chain impact poets? and, Can AI help generate poetry in the blockchain?
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Tuesday, 26-04-2022, (Zoom; 13:00-14:00 BST)
Webinar hosted by TCCE.
Speakers: Dr Eduardo Alonso, and Luba Elliott.Eduardo Alonso and Luba Elliott will explain in simple terms what NFTs are, and how and why academics and practitioners should engage with them, followed by audience questions and answers.
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Credit: Women Rise, by Maliha Abidi
Tuesday, 25-01-2022 (Zoom; 14:00)
Webinar hosted by TCCE and CitAI.
ChairDr Eduardo Alonso. Speakers: Régine Debatty, Luba Elliott, Dr Ramon Amaro, and Dr Bill Balaskas.The event focused on AI as both a subject of and tool for art and activism. We considered issues of AI bias, exploitation, and exclusion, and how AI artivism may address these.
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Events 2021
Thursday, 16-09-2021 (11:00-12:00 BST)
Webinar Series: STEM in Healthcare - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.
Giacomo Tarroni, Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasor and Christina Malamateniou as speakers in this event organised by the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering (SMCSE), City, University of London and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). Eduardo Alonso chaired.
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Wednesday, 21-04-2021 Eventbrite (18:00-19:30 BST)
.Eduardo Alonso gave a talk as special guest of this CebAI event on Can AI create art?
Slides (.pptx) available here
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