The Alan Turing Institute

💡 Today we’re delighted to be hosting the BridgeAI Adopters and Developers event

Bringing together SMEs, developers, experts and investors across the BridgeAI ecosystem, this event is designed to foster collaboration, share insights and strengthen AI adoption across key industries.

By convening voices from diverse sectors, we’re proud to be supporting a thriving, responsible and inclusive AI innovation landscape across the UK.

How is AI changing our lives?

🎧 The Turing's Adrian Weller joined Brian Cox, Neil Lawrence, Steph Wright and Jeanette Winterson to explore this fundamental question.

Listen to the latest episode of The Francis Crick Institute’s A Question of Science podcast (link in the comments)

📢 The Turing Internship Network has opened applications for its next round of 3–6 month paid internships for PhD candidates

✅ 7 opportunities in the financial, agricultural, justice, AI safety and data-centric engineering sectors
✅ Flexible options for part-time or full-time working
✅ Open to data scientists and social scientists
✅ Deadline to apply: 17 June 2025

Through a paid Turing Internship Network (TIN) placement, you have the opportunity to apply research to real-world challenges, collaborate with innovative teams and gain invaluable experience.

This round of internships includes placements in key development areas of data science and AI including large language models (LLMs). Our available internships are:
✳️ Ministry of Justice UK (role for Social Scientist) – What are the attitudes and beliefs about AI enabled justice-related services among those with multiple complex needs?
✳️ HSBC – Data Scientist
✳️ The Alan Turing Institute, Data-centric Engineering – Sustainability through AI – Mapping current activity to decarbonisation challenges
✳️ The Alan Turing Institute, TIRE (Defence & National Security) – Optimising Large Language Models: Techniques for efficiency and scalability

New in this round is the unique opportunity to participate in an Innovate UK BridgeAI internship through one of their startup companies:
✳️ TrackCarbon (Innovate UK BridgeAI programme) – Using AI to support Sustainable Food Systems
✳️ SparkSoft (Innovate UK BridgeAI programme) – Knowledge guided and multi-agent LLM empowered AI for plant-parasitic nematodes quantification and behaviours analysis
✳️ Mutus Tech (Innovate UK BridgeAI programme) – LLM-Enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Sustainable Pest

💡 AI UK 2025: Thank you for coming!

We’ve had an incredible two days exploring the latest groundbreaking innovations across the data science and AI ecosystems.

Joined by world leaders and cutting-edge researchers, we’ve been honoured to explore the future of these transformative technologies.

Covering societal challenges in areas such as environmental innovation, healthcare and national security, we’ve engaged in critical discussions, collaborated in workshops, networked with experts and learned valuable insights from esteemed speakers.

Thank you to all those who were able to join us in-person or online. We hope you feel inspired and invigorated to continue your conversations and advance these technologies for societal good.

📺 We look forward to sharing key sessions from this year’s showcase for free on the AI UK YouTube channel.

🎉 A huge thank you from the Turing to AI UK’s partners, speakers, exhibitors, workshop leaders, long table participants, attendees, volunteers, staff and event coordinators.

🎉 Day 2 of AI UK 2025: Connect, consider, contribute, converse

As we kick off Day 2 of the UK’s national showcase of data science and AI, we’re eagerly awaiting more innovative discussions, including:
🌿 The environmental implications of AI – understanding practical strategies for developing energy-efficient AI technologies while minimising ecological impact.
🛡️ Warfare in the AI age – discussing the ethics of AI in warfare, human-AI cooperation and whether truly intelligent weaponry is on the horizon.
❄️ AI and polar frontiers – exploring how AI is shaping the future of polar operations and wildlife conservation in a rapidly changing world.
🩺 AI in the NHS – examining AI’s transformative role in healthcare, safety and policy.

🎉 Day 1 of AI UK 2025: Welcome!

We’re so excited to be here at AI UK 2025, the UK’s two-day national showcase of data science and AI.

Whether you’re joining in-person or virtually, AI UK’s stages are packed with over 150 brilliant speakers from across academia, industry, government and more.

Today we’ll be delving into:
💡 Research innovation – transforming research into real-world solutions.
🧠 Responsible AI and consciousness – exploring if AI can ever become conscious (and if so, is that desirable?).
🧩 Children and AI – sharing the lessons learned from our recent Children’s AI summit.
🛰️ Sustainable space – how AI can help us clean up space debris.
🛡️ Risks and resilience in AI – understanding how best to protect organisations against ‘worst case’ scenarios when adopting AI.
🌦️ Transforming weather forecasting – improving localised accuracy, data collection and climate resilience in Africa.

🌐 Hundreds of attendees are joining us, in-person and virtually, from across the country and around the world.

💡 Taking centre stage: leading women in tech at AI UK 2025

Ahead of International Women’s Day, we want to spotlight some of the inspiring women shaping the AI UK 2025 programme:

✅ Anne Trefethen – Turing Trustee, Pro-Vice-Chancellor responsible for Digital Strategy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering will be co-emceeing the Research Stage.

✅ Jane Hillston – Turing Trustee, Professor of Quantitative Modelling at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society will be joining Anne as a co-emcee for the Research Stage.

✅ Oonagh Murphy – Turing Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at Goldsmiths, University of London will be hosting the Conversation Stage, exploring AI in culture.

✅ Radhika Chadwick – Executive Chair of the Partnership for Research into Sentient Machines will be leading a workshop on conscious AI.

✅ Lucinda Scharff – Senior Healthcare Specialist at Google will join a panel discussing AI-driven healthcare innovation.

✅ Feryal Clark MP – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government will give the opening address on day 1 of AI UK.

✅ Anne Burns – AI Policy Advisor at the Department for Education will join a panel to discuss children and AI.