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AIMICI Secures Innovate UK Bridge AI Funding to Develop Personalised AI Training for Film and TV Industry - AIMICI AIMICI, in collaboration with Bournemouth University and with ScreenSkills as accreditation partner, has been awarded funding through Innovate UK's Bridge AI

Funded by Innovate UK, the team at Bournemouth University (Szilvia Ruszev, Maxine Gee, Xiaosong Yang and Tom Davis) join leads AIMICI.

Image courtesy of AIMICI.

More info: aimici.co.uk/innovate-uk-...

Brilliant to see BRAID Scoping project 'Shared-Posthuman Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation' outcomes moving forward via new funding. Coming soon: UK's 1st responsible AI e-learning course for Film&TV professionals. Congrats @ruszev.bsky.social
& team on industry implementation!

The forum marks the last phase of @amsichani.bsky.social 's BRAID Fellowship on 'Responsible data, models & workflows: Responsible AI digital skills provision for the cultural heritage community' in collaboration with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Featuring: round tables & discussion on training provision for RAI in cultural heritage, challenges such as skills development, collections’ openness, infrastructure requirements & legal concerns, sector-wide policy making, & broader governance issues on AI systems within GLAM & research sector.

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.

New forum ‘Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum’ on Thu 6 Nov 2025, Senate House (hybrid) from BRAID Fellow @amsichani.bsky.social with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Find out more/register here:
bit.ly/4mUdESC

The work was commissioned as part of BRAID's exhibition 'Tipping Point: artist responses to AI', Edinburgh Art Festival, summer 2025. We're delighted to see Identity 2.0's fabulous zine take its place in the DAIR collection.

Congratulations to artists Identity 2.0, selected as the first guest zine to be included in the @dairinstitute.bsky.social Zine Library. 'Conversations about resistance and generative AI' can be downloaded here: zines.dair-institute.org/ai-z Image courtesy of the DAIR website.

Tipping Point Highlights Video Tipping Point is an exhibition of new Art Commissions by Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) presenting seven outstanding UK-based artists aimed at exploring…

A nice companion piece to our new video reel about the exhibition, introducing the artists and their own reflections: vimeo.com/1123604736/f... with the wonderful @beverleyhood.bsky.social @esarahcook.bsky.social and @ewaluger.bsky.social

Reflecting on Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI 7 — 31 August 2025 | Inspace Gallery, EdinburghIn the summer of 2025, Bridging Responsible AI Divides staged an exhibition of newly commissioned artworks on the theme of Responsible AI by artist

It's one month since we wrapped up Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI, our exhibition featuring seven new artworks by artists from across the UK. Here BRAID community member Alasdair Milne offers his reflections on the exhibition in a new blog.

braiduk.org/reflecting-o...

Great to see the 'Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage research' work included in BRAID's submission to the UN.

Congratulations to the team of BRAID Researchers who have been cited in a recent report on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity published by the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Alexandra Xanthaki. Further details in the linked post by @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social

BRAID is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) @ukri.org

What an amazing project. Well done and congratulations to Pip and all the participants and collaborators on Writing the Wrongs of AI.

You will also find also a link to Pip’s film of her play ‘Page Against the Machine’ which depicts the parody product launch of the LEX-9000 at the Edinburgh Book Festival - with the LEX-9000 being a spoof ‘automatic writing machine’ designed to alleviate the drudgery of creative writing.

Published by @byleaveswelive.bsky.social, the piece reflects on how the saturation of current political & cultural economies by AI frustrates & complicates the evasive, subversive, & rebellious qualities of language - potentially disarming poetry & creative writing as tools of refusal.

Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal This essay by artist and researcher Pip Thornton documents and debates some of the outputs of ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI), a project which explored creative ways to demonstrate the power that hu...

Fantastic new essay from BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social who’s project, Writing the Wrongs of AI, collaborating with @edbookfest.bsky.social explores creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of AI.

bit.ly/46oGcPr

Congratulations to Bev and fellow authors and contributors at the University of York: Victoria Hodge, Radu Calinescu, TT Arvind, and Hannah Richardson from Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Frontiers | Cautious optimism: public voices on medical AI and sociotechnical harm BackgroundMedical-purpose software and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)-enabled technologies (“medical AI”) raise important social, ethical, cultural, and regu...

And latest paper from BRAID Fellow @bevt.bsky.social and collaborators exploring members of the public's views on Medical AI adoption and perceived sociotechnical harm and making recommendations for change.

bit.ly/46x4V2D

Multiculturalism and AI Value Alignment Abstract. Much has been published in the 2020s to date on the core ethical values guiding policy frameworks on “responsible” and “good” AI. While many of t

Sharing a couple of publications from BRAID Fellow @bevt.bsky.social Here's the first.

Multiculturalism and AI Value Alignment

bit.ly/48uLdqS

The forum was organised by @clemicollett.bsky.social BRAID UK Fellow at the @mctd.bsky.social working in partnership with the @ifow.org

The forum created an opportunity for people to listen & be in dialogue with each other to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and the path ahead.

Delighted to share the read-out authored by Alexis Harrell, Christian Neubacher, @ngidda.bsky.social & @clemicollett.bsky.social

bit.ly/46yaX2W

Discussions focused on 7 key themes:

1. Transparency for Readers
2. Impact on Future Generations
3. Definition of Creativity
4. AI Training Rights
5. Copyright Considerations
6. Inclusivity and Exclusivity
7. Resistance in the Age of AI

This summer, a ‘Forum on Generative AI and the Novel’ brought together 33 participants including novelists, publishers, literary agents, representatives from writers’ & publishers’ societies, trade unions, government, law, & academia.

Fantastic opportunity to explore and discuss BRAID's Responsible AI Landscape Report, published earlier this year. The event is online as well as in person in London. Our blog about the report can be found here: braiduk.org/the-responsi... (and links to the report)

Constant Washing Machine | Blast Theory Artists’ Statement We have been intrigued by the instability of the language used in AI policies. Famously, the definition of AI itself is contested and fragmented. At the outset of the field even the...

Image: courtesy of Blast Theory and the FRAIM project.

More on FRAIM:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

and Constant Washing Machine:
www.blasttheory.co.uk/projects/con...

More on CREA-TEC:
crea-tec.weebly.com

Image of a bar of soap with the word "practice" embossed into it, held by a person who's arm is showing. The arm has tatoos of nature on it, a bird and some berries.

Proud to see two BRAID projects shortlisted for Impact Awards at #UKAIRS2025 Congratulations to the FRAIM project team, led by Denis Newman-Griffis & Susan Oman in collaboration with Blast Theory @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social on their WIN & to @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social on her honorable mention.

Responsible AI at Arts Council England This report focuses on how the Arts Council is using AI responsibly in its internal work

"A must-listen for anyone navigating AI in the cultural sector."

If you're interested in how Arts Council England with BRAID Fellow @oonaghtweets.bsky.social developed its AI policy & toolkit, here's a podcast!
bit.ly/3I0w8Tr

Key outputs from the collaboration can be found here:
bit.ly/46EZiRd

We had a superb panel on AI Literacy in Newsroom, with Laura Ellis (BBC), Karyn Fleeting (Reach plc.), Pulitzer award winner @cephillips.bsky.social (Stanford @stanfordpress.bsky.social), @titusplattner.bsky.social (Tamedia) and Catherine Sotirakou (IQ Media).

@braiduk.bsky.social @datajconf.com

New publication from BRAID Fellow Paula Westenberger and Despoina Farmaki exploring the intricate interplay between cultural heritage, AI and copyright law.

'AI for cultural heritage research: the challenges in UK copyright law and policy':

www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/eur...

"the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States".

Perfect time to re-share outputs of the BRAID-funded CREAATIF project, thanks to @ifow.org for tagging us.