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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 30, 2025 13:23<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Drew Hemment; Matjaz Vidmar; Courtney Bates; ckommers@turing.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> On Behalf of Drew Hemment & Allan Sudlow | Workshop Invitation: Doing AI Differently | 13-14 March 2025, London
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Dear Dr. Bernd Stahl,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">We are writing to invite you to attend a workshop advancing an international initiative to integrate the humanities, data science, and engineering in shaping the future of
artificial intelligence.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The
<b><a href="http://www.doingaidifferently.org/" id="OWA12341f7f-92c1-66d8-347e-7a222e0665b4" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: http://www.doingaidifferently.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="http://www.doingaidifferently.org/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin: 0px;">Doing
AI Differently</a></b> initiative challenges traditional approaches to AI development by positioning humanities perspectives as integral—rather than supplemental—to technical innovation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>London Workshop, Date & Venue:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Date</b>: Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10am-4pm</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Location</b>: The Royal Academy of Engineering (Prince Philip House), London SW1</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Working group sessions</b>: continue on Friday, 14 March 2025, 10am-4pm</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Aligned with the Alan Turing Institute’s major annual conference (AIUK) on 17-18 March</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The workshop is an early opportunity to discover and help to refine the research vision and topic scope for an
<b>Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC–UKRI) International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) funding call</b> launching April 2025. This call will focus on UK, US and Canadian collaborations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Core Challenges</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>1. Developing Interpretive Technologies.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Leveraging current AI architectures to implement deeper interpretive capabilities, developing approaches to represent multiple perspectives and capture semantic depth while
maintaining computational tractability.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>2. Exploring Alternative AI Architectures.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Exploring fundamentally new approaches to AI design that move beyond current limitations in foundation models and gradient-based learning to enable more pluralistic and culturally
adaptive AI systems.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>3. Advancing Human-AI Ensembles</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Moving beyond simple substitution or assistance models, to foster new relationships between human and artificial intelligence, each contributing unique capabilities to achieve
outcomes neither could accomplish alone.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Initiative Objectives:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">1. Develop pilot projects demonstrating humanities-driven technical advances in AI</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">2. Establish funding mechanisms fostering interdisciplinary partnerships</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">3. Create scalable pathways for humanities scholars to participate in large-scale AI projects</span></p>
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<b>New paradigms</b> for addressing complex, context-dependent tasks in AI</span></p>
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<b>Enhanced AI tools</b> for deep contextual analysis across disciplines</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">- AI systems
<b>better aligned</b> with societal values and ethical considerations</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The rapid advances in increasingly sophisticated AI systems makes this timing critical, and we seek to develop inclusive, research-led ideas that will provide practical ways
to address some of the recommendations set out in the recent UK Government <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan" id="OWA8ed5fb86-7fc2-bdf3-3030-9d3181da2719" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">
AI Opportunities Action Plan</a>. This initiative adds the opportunities for research and innovation in AI – artificial intelligence – in the UK (see
<a href="https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/our-vision-and-strategy/strategies-and-reviews/ai-review-transforming-our-world-with-ai/" id="OWA5d731210-528b-bfae-2d67-bbfd7563ba57" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/our-vision-and-strategy/strategies-and-reviews/ai-review-transforming-our-world-with-ai/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/our-vision-and-strategy/strategies-and-reviews/ai-review-transforming-our-world-with-ai/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin: 0px;">
Transforming our world with AI</a>).</span></p>
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<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">View our complete vision statement:<i> </i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.newreal.cc/doingaidifferently" id="OWAbc606598-c3c3-bb8e-d7f8-8135705b048b" class="x_fui-Link x____1q1shib x_f2hkw1w x_f3rmtva x_f1ewtqcl x_fyind8e x_f1k6fduh x_f1w7gpdv x_fk6fouc x_fjoy568 x_figsok6 x_f1s184ao x_f1mk8lai x_fnbmjn9 x_f1o700av x_f13mvf36 x_f1cmlufx x_f9n3di6 x_f1ids18y x_f1tx3yz7 x_f1deo86v x_f1eh06m1 x_f1iescvh x_fhgqx19 x_f1olyrje x_f1p93eir x_f1nev41a x_f1h8hb77 x_f1lqvz6u x_f10aw75t x_fsle3fq x_f17ae5zn x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.newreal.cc/doingaidifferently" data-auth="NotApplicable">www.newreal.cc/doingaidifferently</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>To attend please complete an expression of interest
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17 February 2025. </b>We will be in touch to confirm your attendance by 19 February 2025.</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>A limited number of bursaries are available to support travel costs for participants who do not have other institutional support. See expression of interest form for details.</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Capacity for the in-person workshop is limited. The workshop will also be available to stream online, with some opportunities for interaction for remote participants. </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Professor Drew Hemment</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Theme Lead, Doing AI Differently, The Alan Turing Institute & University of Edinburgh</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Director, AHRC International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) Funding Call & Workshops</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Dr Allan Sudlow</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Director of Partnerships and Engagement, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)</span></p>
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