Neil Lawrence

Not long until our #CamFest event!

Join Henrietta Hughes, Alastair Denniston, @lawrennd.bsky.social, Melanie Ivarsson & Rozelle Kane as they explore the challenges & opportunities of using #AI to create healthier communities for all.

Grab your ticket now! 🎟️ ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-the...

Volume 322

proceedings.mlr.press/v312

Proccedings of the AAAI Workshop on Audio-Centric AI

Is now available on PMLR.

Volume 322

proceedings.mlr.press/v322/

The Proceedings of the third UniReps Workshop

Is now available on PMLR

Cambridge University Library is one of the oldest university libraries in the world, but how do you digitise centuries of handwritten records without hours of manual work?

📚 Find out how #AI is unlocking centuries of knowledge in our latest blog: www.ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/using-a...

At the AI Impact Summit in Delhi: people, planet, progress Trip report from the Indian AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, covering the massive expo, a conversation with Yann LeCun, a hackathon/talk at IIT-Delhi, networking at the British High Commission, and refl...

My notes on the whirlwind Indian AI Summit: anil.recoil.org/notes/india-... featuring @lawrennd.bsky.social all over national TV!

PM Modi, Global Leaders Tour India AI Impact Expo | DD India YouTube video by DD India

"We need to examine who is really steering this technology – it is so important that #AI is co-created with real people."

Watch our Chair of ai@cam, @lawrennd.bsky.social, on Indian news discussing the #AIImpactSummit 🇮🇳

www.youtube.com/watch?v=95TO...

Volume 303

proceedings.mlr.press/v303

Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Emerging AI Technologies for Music,

Is now available on PMLR.

Agents and the Hidden Cost of Making Things Easier | Trent AI A systems view on AI agents: how individual productivity gains create hidden costs, fragile workflows, and long-term organizational risk.

Agents and the Hidden Cost of Making Things Easier trent.ai/blog/agents-...

New blog post on some of the intuitions I have on ways of describing limitations on intelligence.

inverseprobability.com/2026/01/25/l...

It also links to a new arXiv paper that continues to look at the inaccessible game ... a sandbox for idea formalisation.

I shared some predictions for the new year with VMblog

Now available below.

vmblog.com/archive/2026...

TL;DR: It's a decade of agents and the innovations will come from agent orchestration than improvements in LLMs.

The Origin of the Inaccessible Game The inaccessible game is an information-geometric framework where dynamics of information loss emerge from maximum entropy production under marginal-entropy conservation. We study the game's startin...

Follow up ... www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.12576

Meet the Board: Neil Lawrence (ELLIS Board Member | DeepMind Professor, University of Cambridge) YouTube video by ELLIS

👋 Meet the ELLIS Board!

This episode features @lawrennd.bsky.social, DeepMind Professor of ML at @cam.ac.uk 🇬🇧.

He shares perspectives on AGI timelines, data vs. algorithms, and why progress in AI should be judged by its impact on people and society.

Watch the video 👉 youtu.be/uxtVA5fMQZQ

Speed Isn’t Productivity: Why AI Makes the Hard Work Invisible | Trent AI LLMs make the easy 80% fast, not the hard 20% correct. A reflection on productivity, quality work, security failures, and why speed can be dangerous.

Some thoughts on speed and productivity and ... Artificial Indolence ... in the era of LLMs.

trent.ai/blog/speed-i...

Arvostettu brittitutkija sanoo, että tekoäly ei korvaa ihmistä Tekoälyllä voi olla demokratisoiva vaikutus, sanoo arvostettu brittitutkija Neil Lawrence. Ongelmana ovat tekoälykehityksen omineet isot teknologiayhtiöt.

Disruption caused by AI and hegemony of tech giants can be countered with open research, like that done at ELLIS Institute Finland and @ellis.eu, says @lawrennd.bsky.social. Interview from the AI Summit in Finnish, with videos in English: yle.fi/a/74-20200471 @ai.cam.ac.uk
✍️ @tmu.bsky.social

Volume 311

Proceedings of Machine Learning in Computational Biology 2025

proceedings.mlr.press/v311/

Is now available on PMLR.

Volume 292

proceedings.mlr.press/v292

Proceedings of the TerraBytes ICML Workshop

Is now available on PMLR.

This from @lawrennd.bsky.social is pleasingly unexpected

I wrote a short blog triggered by Yann LeCun's reported departure from FAIR and all the talk of superintelligence.

inverseprobability.com/2025/11/12/t...

Volume 287

proceedings.mlr.press/v278/

Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Computing

Is now available on PMLR

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried? The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

Cool article!
I think Prof. @lawrennd.bsky.social has a crucial point here that I've been making myself.
"The big worry is that we're so drawn in to big tech's narratives about AGI that we're missing the ways in which we need to make things better for people."
But that's not what e/acc want.

AI-deas Sprint Programme Call The AI-deas sprint programme is focused on supporting pioneering and innovative projects to develop breakthrough prototypes that will make a positive impact on society.

⏳ Just a few days left to apply for our new AI-deas Sprint Programme!

Do you have an #AI idea that could have real-world impact?We’re offering @cam.ac.uk researchers the chance to get up to £25k to bring bold concepts to life.

📅 Apply by Friday 10 October!
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...

Volume 298

proceedings.mlr.press/v298/

Proceedings of Machine Learning for Healthcare 2025

Is now available on PMLR

How can we harness #AI for good?

Our Chair of ai@cam, @lawrennd.bsky.social, joined A Question of Science to unpack the role and capabilities of artificial intelligence and what this means for society.

Listen here 🎧 ➡️ www.lnk.to/AQOSAIPA

Panel discussion promotional image titled ‘How Can We Harness AI for Good?’ featuring several speakers with microphones.

NEW EPISODE: Can we harness AI for good?

Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of cancer research and treatment.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAIBB

📢 Calling all local council staff & @cam.ac.uk #AI researchers!

Join our new #AI in Local Government Fair to hear directly from councils about their toughest challenges and explore together how AI can strengthen #publicservices.

📅 Monday 24 November
➡️ Apply now: ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-in-...

Getting the Full Picture: Reflections from the RSS–ONS–OSR Roundtable on Survey Representativeness

This summer, we came together with ONS & OSR to explore innovative solutions to falling survey response rates.

Collaboration is key to solving system-wide challenges, and this roundtable was just the start.

Read more 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Reassuring to know that there are students who don’t succumb to the temptation to use ChatGPT.

🚀 Do you have an #AI idea that could have real-world impact? 🚀

We’re offering @cam.ac.uk researchers the chance to get up to £25k + 6 months’ support to bring bold concepts to life through our new AI-deas Sprint Programme.

📅 Deadline: 10 Oct
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...

President's blog: Reflections on a record breaking RSS Conference

960+ people. 4 days. 1 unforgettable conference. Thanks to everyone who made #RSS2025 such a standout event!

Our president John Aston shares some reflections, including a timely reminder that transparency is key to trust in official stats 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Accepted papers at ProbNum 2025 have now been published as a volume in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Thank you to all the authors for their beautiful papers and to the PMLR editor Prof Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social for making this possible.

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