Broad areas
AI and society
Who is responsible when an AI system causes harm or makes a mistake.
How AI can treat groups of people unequally, and how to detect and reduce that.
Questions of right and wrong in how AI is designed and used.
People and AI working together, with humans staying in control.
Laws and rules for AI, such as the EU AI Act and data protection.
How AI works
AI systems that act on their own to reach goals, sometimes several working together.
Reasoning with probabilities, updating beliefs as new evidence arrives.
How AI supports, automates or changes decisions, and the trade-offs involved.
Neural networks with many layers, the technology behind most modern AI.
How to check that an AI system works as claimed, including benchmarks and audits.
AI that creates new content such as text, images or data.
Systems like ChatGPT that generate text, what they can and cannot do, and how they are used.
Systems that learn patterns from data instead of following fixed rules.
Whether and how AI can think logically, plan and explain its conclusions.
Using simulated worlds or simulated people to train or study AI, and where that breaks down.
Machines and energy
Computer chips inspired by the brain, designed to use very little energy.
Mind and brain
What the brain can teach us about intelligence, and AI as a model of the brain.
Fields and applications
Research and industry
How university research and companies work together, and where they clash.