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A comedy-drama about AI by Clare Duffy (Civic Digits Theatre Company) & Pip Thornton, brought to the SPL as part of the Being Human Festival

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 23h

A short satirical play, 'Page Against the Machine', by BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social & @Clare Duffy (Civic Digits C.I.C), will showcase at @byleaveswelive.bsky.social in Edinburgh on 6/7 Nov as part of this year's @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

Find out more/book here:
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Page Against The Machine

AIMICI Secures Innovate UK Bridge AI Funding to Develop Personalised AI Training for Film and TV Industry - AIMICI

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 1d

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-...

AIMICI, in collaboration with Bournemouth University and with ScreenSkills as accreditation partner, has been awarded funding through Innovate UK's Bridge AI

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 1d

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

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 1d

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

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 1d

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:
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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.

Tipping Point Highlights Video

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 1d

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.

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

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

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

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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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

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Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social · 10d

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

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 10d

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

Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted that my contribution and the submission with Kate Milner, Martin Parker, @kyrill.bsky.social, Anna-Maria Sichani and @paulawest.bsky.social as part of @braiduk.bsky.social are cited in the report on AI and creativity of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 10d

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

Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted that my contribution and the submission with Kate Milner, Martin Parker, @kyrill.bsky.social, Anna-Maria Sichani and @paulawest.bsky.social as part of @braiduk.bsky.social are cited in the report on AI and creativity of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 14d

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

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 14d

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

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 14d

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.

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 14d

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

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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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...

Frontiers | Cautious optimism: public voices on medical AI and sociotechnical harm

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 16d

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.

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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BackgroundMedical-purpose software and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)-enabled technologies (“medical AI”) raise important social, ethical, cultural, and regu...

Multiculturalism and AI Value Alignment

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 16d

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

Multiculturalism and AI Value Alignment

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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

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 17d

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

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 17d

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

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