Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: Minds in the Making🏺minds-making.github.io Register now! June – July 2024, free & open to the public. (all career stages, all disciplines)

How can the UK turn more innovative startups into global tech giants? New report by Tony Blair Institute for Global Change 🧵 bit.ly/3FHUMa4 The UK’s scaleup ladder is broken – fixing it will help boost growth and security #LondonTechWeek Scaleups make up just 0.5% of UK SMEs, yet generate

A really important project, with a clear message for progress!

Thankyou Ruairidh Battleday and ThAT (Thinking about Thinking) for organizing 'Sixth International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI' and for your continued efforts in supporting the neuroscience community. I'm happy to became a part of it by presenting my recent research work.

Excited to see this announcement from the Government’s SovereignAI unit: funding for the world’s largest dataset of protein interactions, led by a truly world-class group of researchers As Demis Hassabis says, “This is a brilliant initiative for UK science”

Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025 youtu.be/zuZ2zaotrJs?si… via YouTube This is a must watch speech, the wisest words you could hear. Congratulations 🙌 Ilya Sutskever University of Toronto was very fortunate to have you and so many other amazing students and

Hello friends! Uploading the video of my invited talk 👇: Transforming long-horizon experience into wisdom in Brains and AIs. Talks thru the day include Jurgen Schmidhuber, Jay McClelland [5:56], Mine [1:03:08] Ivana Kajic [1:48:20] Naomi Saphra [2:12:16] Michael Lepori

Really delighted with the outcome of the Spending Review: £2bn to support the AI Opportunities Action Plan, including £500m for SovereignAI. So much to do but this gives the UK a great foundation.

If we settle for anything less with AI, we’ll be failing to act on what’s possible. For new graduates, this is not just a time to survive disruption but one to shape what comes next. You can read my full thoughts in today's The San Francisco Standard : sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0…

I am delighted to announce that Blaise Metreweli will succeed me as Chief of #MI6 on 1 October 2025. Blaise has had a distinguished career as an intelligence officer and leader. She possesses all the qualities to be an outstanding ‘C’. Read more here 🔽 gov.uk/government/new…

I've had the privilege of getting to know Blaise Metreweli as part of my work building the AI Security Institute. She's excellent. Great choice to lead MI6 theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Looking forward to seeing some strong #AI collaborations grow from the conference!

It's hard to plan for AGI without knowing what outcomes are even possible, let alone good. So we’re hosting a workshop! Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria: Are there any good ones? Vancouver, July 14th Featuring: Joe Carlsmith Richard Ngo Emmett Shear 🧵

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Go Lucy Lai, PhD!!! Congratulations!!

Great evening at the Inference debate on the potential for an intelligence explosion. Excellent contributions from tylercowen, Tom Davidson, Connor Leahy and Mike Webb. Bravo Jack Wiseman for organising and moderating!

10 years ago, in May 2015, we published the first working very deep gradient-based feedforward neural networks (FNNs) with hundreds of layers (previous FNNs had a maximum of a few dozen layers). To overcome the vanishing gradient problem, our Highway Networks used the residual