Publications
Governance Node Publications
Policy Responses
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A call for evidence from the Intellectual Property Office [pdf][doi]
The Right to Privacy: A call for evidence from UK Parliament [pdf]
Establishing a pro-innovation approach to regulating AI. Call from the Office of Artificial Intelligence [pdf] [doi]
Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A call for evidence from UK Parliament: Science and Technology Committee. [doi].
AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach – policy proposals. Call from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Office for Artificial Intelligence. [doi].
Response to Lords Select Committee - Call for Evidence from House of Lords Committee on AI in Weapons Systems.
Policy Report from International Symposium on the Verification of Autonomous Mobile Systems - HAL Open Science [pdf]
- Incoming
- Farič N, Hinder S, Williams R, Ramaesh R, Bernabeu M, van Beek E, Cresswell K,. Early experiences of integrating an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic decision support system into radiology settings: a qualitative study. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2023 Link
- Cresswell K, Rigby M, Magrabi F, Scott P, Brender J, Craven C, Williams R,. The need to strengthen the evaluation of the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based decision support systems on healthcare provision. Health Policy, 2023 Link
- Baumgartner R, Arora P, Bath C, Burljaev D, Ciereszko K, Custers B..... Williams R,. Fair and equitable AI in biomedical research and healthcare: Social science perspectives. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2023. Link
- Li, P. ‘AI governance, data flow, and international trade’, FRIS Symposium on Social Robots and Ethical Design, Tohoku University, 18-20 July 2023 Link
- Li, P. ‘Regulating Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS)- AI in healthcare’, 1st International Conference on Data Economy Law: Data, √ Li, P. Artificial Intelligence & Beyond: Legal Challenges and Potentials for Start-Ups and SMEs in the Data Business, 26 June 2023, Krems, Austria Link
- Li, P. ‘Medical 3D printing’ Intelligent Manufacturing and Digital Intellectual Property Protection, Nottink-3DP Authentication Platform Roadshow, 25 March 2023 (hybrid), Nottingham University Business School China (NUBS China) and University of Exeter. AHRC project ‘Licensing system for 3D printing in China – impact follow on’.
- Li, P. ‘How national security is shaping digital sovereignty’, Panel on ‘Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flow’, (online), hosted by the American Society of International Law and Sydney Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, University of Sydney. 3 March 2023
- Li, P. ‘Data governance, intellectual property and international trade’ 2023 IP Scholars Conference, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, NY, 2-4 August 2023
- Li, P. Williams R, Gilbert S and Anderson S, ‘Regulating AI/ML-enabled Medical Devices in the UK’ TAS’23 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, July 2023, Article No.:9, 1-10, Link
- Li, P and Shafer B, ‘Digital governance and international intellectual property law: a bifurcated approach’ International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) 41st Annual Congress, University of Tokyo, Japan, 9-12 July 2023
- Morito-Jaeger, M and Li P, ‘The interoperability of data governance in the UK: from domestic to international perspectives’ International Digital Trade: Technology and Policy Symposium, Teesside University, UK, 21 June 2023
- Li, P and Liu, C-Y ‘AI governance: digital sovereignty, fragmentation and international convergence’ Law and Society Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 3 June 2023
- Li P, ‘Digital innovation, information governance and intellectual property’ 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Communication Law (CICL) Marketplace for innovation, ideas, and technologies – roles and responsibilities, Adam Mickiewicz University, 11-12 May 2023
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Conitzer, V., Hadfield, G. & Vallor, S., Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias 31 Jan 2023, Communications of the ACM, 66, p. 100. Link
- S. Vallor, B. Ganesh Artificial Intelligence and the Imperative of Responsibility in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility, ed. M. Kiener (Routledge, 2023), 395-406. Link
- S. Vallor Edinburgh Declaration on Responsibility for Responsible AI. Medium.com, 2023 Link
- M. Burke, K. Lu, D. Angelov, A. Straižys, C. Innes, K. Subr, S. Ramamoorthy Learning rewards from exploratory demonstrations using probabilistic temporal ranking. Autonomous Robots, 2023 Link
- A.V. Miceli Barone, F. Barez, I. Konstas, S.B. Cohen, The Larger they Are, the Harder They Fall: Languare Models do not Recognise Identifier Swaps in Python The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023
- B. Legastelois, A. Rafferty, P. Brennan, H. Chockler, A. Rajan, V. Belle Challenges in Explaining Brain Tumor Detection First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 2023
- P. Darm, A.V. Miceli Barone, S.B. Cohen, A. Riccardi Knowledge Base Question Answering for Space Debris Queries The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023
- A. Knittel, M. Hawasly, S. Albrecht, J. Redford, S. Ramamoorthy DiPA: Probabilistic Multi-Modal Interactive Prediction for Autonomous Driving IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2023
- E. Ungless, B. Ross, V. Belle Potential Pitfalls with Automatic Sentiment Analysis: The Example of Queerphobic Bias Social Science Computer Review 2023
- D.B. Abeywickrama, A. Bennaceur, G. Chance, Y. Demiris, A. Kordoni, M. Levine, L. Moffat, L. Moreau, M.R. Mousavi, B. Nuseibeh, S. Ramamoorthy, J.O. Ringert, J. Wilson, S. Windsor, K. Eder, On specifying for trustworthiness. Communications of the ACM, 2023.
- A. Straižys, M. Burke, P.M. Brennan, S. Ramamoorthy, A generative force model for surgical skill quantification using sensorised instruments. Communications Engineering Vol. 2, Article 36, 2023 Publishers Link
- L. Daxin, Q. Feng, V. Belle, G. Lakemeyer Concerning Measures in a First-order Logic with Actions and Meta-beliefs The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 2023
- V. Belle, Knowledge Representation and Aquisition for ethical AI: Challenges and Opportunities Ethics and Information Technology, Issue 22 2023 Link
- C. Innes, A. Ireland, Y. Lin, S. Ramamoorthy, Anticipating accidents through reasoned simulation In Proc. International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) 2023
- P. Li, S. Gilbert, R. Williams, S. Anderson, Regulating AI/ML-enabled Medical Devices in the UK First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 2023
- L. Hatherall, D. Kekulluoglu, N. Kokciyan, M. Rovatsos, N. Sethi, T. Vierkant, S. Vallor Responsible Agency Through Answerability: Cultivating the Moral Ecology of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 2023
- D. Paulius, V. Belle, Synthesising Recursive Functions for First-Order Model Counting: Challenges, Progress, and Conjectures The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 2023
- A. Constantin, M. Atkinson, M. Bernabeu, F. Buckmaster, B. Dhillon, A. McTrusty, N. Strang, R. Williams (2023) Optometrists’ Perspectives regarding Artificial Intelligence Assistance and contributing Retinal Images to a Repository: a Pilot Study (#40887) JMIR Human Factors.
- A. Bueff, V. Belle Logic + Reinforcement Learning + Deep Learning: A Survey International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2023
- J. Park, A. Lascarides, S. Ramamoorthy Interactive Acquisition of Fine-grained Visual Concepts by Exploiting Semantics of Generic Characterizations in Discourse 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics
- S. Beckers, H. Chockler, J. Halpern Quantifying Harm International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization 2023
- A. Bueff, V. Belle, Deep Inductive Logic Programming meets Reinforced Learning The 39th International Conference on Logic Programming July 2023
- V. Belle Toward a Logic Theory of Fairness and Bias The 39th International Conference on Logic Programming July 2023
- I.Mocanu, V. Belle, B. Juba Learnability with PAC Semantics for Multi-agent Beliefs The 39th International Conference on Logic Programming July 2023
- V. Belle Counterfactual Explanations as Plans The 39th International Conference on Logic Programming July 2023
- I. Mocanu, B. Juba, V. Belle Learnability with PAC Semantics for Multi-agent Beliefs The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2023
- Q. Feng, D. Liu, G. Lakemeyer, V. Belle A Logic of Only Believing over Arbitrary Probabilistic Distributions The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2023
- V. Belle, T Bolander, A. Herzig, B. Nebel Epistemic Planning: Perspectives on the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Journal 2023
- V. Belle Probabilistic Beliefs 2023 Toward Robotics That Reason: Logic, Probability, Causal Laws 2023
- C. Innes, S. Ramamoorthy Testing rare downstream safety violations via upstream adaptive sampling of perception error models IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
- Y. Lu, Z. Yu, Y. Lin, B. Schafer, A. Ireland, L Urquhart Handling Inconsistent and Uncertain Legal Reasoning for AI Vehicles Design International Workshop on Methodologies for Translating Legal Norms into Formal Representations 2023
- V. Belle Actions, Continuous Distributions and Meta-Beliefs The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2023
- T. Hoffman, V. Belle Abstracting Noisy Robot Programs The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2023
- E. Ungless, B. Ross, V. Belle Potential Pitfalls with Automatic Sentiment Analysis: The Example of Queerphobic Bias Social Science Computer Review (Feb 2023) Link
- G. Papantonis, V. Belle Model Transparency: Why do we Care? the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2023
- C Innes, A Ireland, Y Lin, S Ramamoorthy, Anticipating Accidents through Reasoned Modelling. Proceedings of the 31st Safety-Critical Systems Symposium (SSS'23) York 2023
- L Urquhart, A McStay Emotional Artificial Intelligence in Cars. Weng, Pagallo and Barfield Human Robot Interaction and the Law (CUP: Forthcoming) (Accepted)
- S Gilbert, S Anderson, M Daumer, P Li, T Melvin, R Williams. Learning from experience and finding the right balance in the governance of AI-based and digital health technologies: a perspective. J Med internet Res 2023.
- A Pettersson, RM Ballardini, M Mimler, P Li, M Salmi, T Minssen, I Gibson, A Mäkitie, Legal issues and underexplored data protection in medical 3D printing: a scoping review 2023 Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, section Biomaterials. Link
- P Li, S Gilbert, S Anderson, R Williams, Regulating AI/ML in SaMD: mapping the experimental space for AI adoption 2023 Law, Technology and Humans, Special issue on the future of medical device regulation Link
- L Urquhart, A McStay Emotional Intelligence in Cars Weng, Pagallo and Barfield Human Robot Interaction and the Law (CUP: Forthcoming) (Accepted)
- G. Dagan, F. Keller, A. Lascarides, Learning the Effects of Physical Actions in a Multimodal Environment. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2023. Link
- A Atabey, B Schafer L Urquhart How Do You Solve a Problem like Alexa, IRIS / Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion 2023 (Accepted)
- S. McLachlan, B. Schafer, K. Dube, E. Kyrimi, N. Fenton Tempting the Fate of the Furious: Cyber security and autonomous cars International Review of Law, Computers and Technology 2022
- Y Lu, Z Yu, Y Lin, B Schafer, A Ireland and L Urquhart Handling Inconsistent and Uncertain Legal Reasoning for AI Vehicles Design International Workshop on Methodologies for Translating Legal Norms into Formal Representations
- S. Ioannou, H. Chockler, A. Hammers, A. King A Study of Demographic Bias in CNN-Based Brain MR Segmentation 2022 Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging 5th International Workshop
- B. Schafer In space, nobody can copyright your scream The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty 2022
- R. Bogani, B. Schafer Artificial Intelligence and Children's Rights The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences and Human Rights 2022
- Y Lu , Z Yu, Y Lin , B Schafer, A Ireland and L. Urquhart, An Argumentation and Ontology Based Legal Support System for AI Vehicle Design, Proceedings of Jurix’23
- D Onitiu The limits of explainability & human oversight in the EU Commission’s proposal for the Regulation on AI- a critical approach focusing on medical diagnostic systems (2022) Information and Communications Technology Law
- H. Chockler, J. Halpern On Testing for Discrimination Using Causal Models Proceedings of the AAAi Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022
- B. Schafer Legal Tech and Computational Legal Theory 2022 Law and Technology in Global Digital Society - Autonomous Systems, Big Data, IT Security and Legal Tech
- GB. Smith, V. Belle, RPA Petrick Intention Recognition With ProbLog 2022 Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence
- V. Belle Tractable Probabilistic Models for Ethical AI 27th International Conference on Conceptual Structures ICCS 2022
- V. Belle Analyzing generalized planning under nondeterminism 2022 Artificial Intelligence
- I. Mocanu, Z. Yang, V. Belle Breaking CAPTCHA with Capsule Networks 2022 Neural Networks
- MA. Mendez Lucero, RM. Karampatis, E. Bojorquez Gallardo, V. Belle Signal Perceptron: On the Identifiability of Boolean Function Spaces and Beyond Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 2022
- S Vallor, J Tasioulas, M Scheutz, R Calo, M Mara, A Zimmermann 2022 The AI Mirror: Reclaiming our Humanity in the age of Machine Thinking
- D Onitiu The EU Commission’s Proposal for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and “human-centric” Regulation for AI as Medical Device
- D Onitiu Transparency and product safety regarding medical diagnostic systems – conference paper: ETHICOMP - Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland
- C. Innes, S. Ramamoorthy, Testing rare downstream safety violations via upstream adaptive sampling of perception error models. Under review Link
- H. Chockler, S. Beckers, J. Halpern, An Analysis of Harm using Causal Models and Default Utilities. NeurIPS 2022.
- N. Hoernle, R. Karampatsis, V. Belle, K. Gal MultiplexNet: Towards Fully Satisfied Logical Constraints in Neural Networks Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022
- L Urquhart, G McGarry, A Crabtree Legal Provocations for HCI in the Design and Development of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 2022
- B. Ganesh, S. Anderson, S. Vallor, If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It: Steamboat Accidents and their Lessons for AI Governance. WeRobot 2022.
- A.L. Corso, S.M. Katz, C. Innes, X. Du, S. Ramamoorthy, M.J. Kochenderfer, Risk-driven design of perception systems. Manuscript under review. Link
- R. Rubavicius, A. Lascarides, Interactive Symbol Grounding with Complex Referential Expressions. Proceedings of North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2022
- P. H. Lim, P. Li, Artificial intelligence and inventorship: patently much ado in the computer program, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2022, Pages 376–386. Link
- L. Viano, Y.-T. Huang, P. Kamalaruban, C. Innes, S. Ramamoorthy, A. Weller, Robust learning from observation with model misspecification, In Proc. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2022. Link
- X. Du, B. Legastelois, B. Ganesh, A. Rajan, H. Chockler, V. Belle, S. Anderson, S. Ramamoorthy, Vision Checklist: Towards Testable Error Analysis of Image Models to Help System Designers Interrogate Model Capabilites, Manuscript under review. Preprint.
- C. Innes, S. Ramamoorthy, Automated testing with temporal logic specifications for robotic controllers using adaptive experiment design. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022. Link
- C. Muise, V. Belle, P. Felli, S. McIlraith, T. Miller, A. Pearce, L. Sonenberg, Efficient multi agent epistemic planning: Teaching planners about nested belief. Artificial Intelligence, volume 302.
- S. McLachlan, M. Neil, K. Dube, R. Bogani, N. Fenton, B. Schafer, Smart automotive technology adherence to the law: (de)constructing road rules for autonomous system development, verification and safety. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Volume 29 Winter 2021. Link
- F.J.C. Garcia, S.C. Smith, J. Lopes, S. Ramamoorthy, H. Hastie, Self-explainable robots in remote environments, Videos and Demos track. In Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021. Publisher’s link, Preprint
- S.D.S. Marín, D. Gomez-Vargas, N. Céspedes, M. Múnera, F. Roberti, P. Barria, S. Ramamoorthy, M. Becker, R. Carelli, C. A. Cifuentes, Expectations and perceptions of healthcare professionals for robot deployment in hospital environments during the COVID-19 pandemic, Research topic: Robotics, Autonomous Systems and AI for Nonurgent/Nonemergent Healthcare Delivery During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Frontiers in Robotics and AI – Biomedical Robotics, 2021. Publisher’s link
- M. Appelgren, A. Lascarides, A. Symbol Grounding and Task Learning from Imperfect Corrections. Second International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics. ACL-IJNLP, 2021 : Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021.
- C. Marsden, I. Brown and M. Veale. Responding to Disinformation: Ten Recommendations for Regulatory Action and Forebearance, Chapter 11 in M. Moor and D. Tambini ed. Dealing with Digital Dominance, Oxford Press [2021] Preprint
- A. McStay, L. Urquhart, In cars (are we really safest of all?): Interior sensing and emotional opacity. Preprint
- D. Pagojus, A. Miller, B. Porr and I. Valkov. Simulation and Model Checking for Close to Real-time Overtaking Planning. In: M.Farrell & M. Luckcuck (Eds): Third Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS2021)
- S. McLachlan, M. Neil, K. Dube, R. Bogani, N. Fenton, B. Schafer Smart automotive technology to the law: (de)constructing road rules for autonomous system development, verification and safety International Journal of Law and Information Technology 2021
- B. Schafer, C. Kutterer, E. Staudegger, E. Nerantzi, J. Slosser, J.J. Baker, M. Hildebrandt, . Kennedy: Legal Services Industry in AIAI4People’s 7 AI Global Frameworks, Atomium. 2021
- L. Urquhart, D. Miranda, Policing Faces: The Present and Future of Intelligent Facial Surveillance. Preprint
- P, Inglesant, C. Ten Holter, M. Jirotka, R, Williams, Asleep at the wheel? Responsible Innovation in quantum computing. Publishers Link
- H. Chockler, D. Kroening, Y. Sun. Explanations for Occluded Images. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021. Preprint
- H. Pouget, H. Chockler, Y. Sun, D. Kroening. Ranking Policy Decisions. Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021. Preprint
- H. Chockler, J. Halpern. On Testing for Discrimination Using Causal Models. Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022. Preprint
- S. Murdoch, D. Seng, B. Schafer, S Mason, The sources and characteristics of electronic evidence and artificial intelligence. Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures, University of London Press, 2021. Link
- N. Hoernle, R. Karampatsis, V. Belle, Y. Gal. MultiplexNet: Towards Fully Satisfied Logical Constraints in Neural Networks. Proceedings of 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022
- N. Wilson, A. Sheldon, H. Dries, B. Schafer, S Mason Proof: The Technical Collection and Examination of Electronic Evidence Link
- D. Pagojus, A. Miller, B. Porr, I. Vakov. Simulation and Model Checking for Close to Real-time Overtaking Planning. Third workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS2021)
- V. Belle, I. Papantonis, Principles and Practice of Explainable Machine Learning. Frontiers in Big Data
- V. Belle, Logic Meets Learning: From Aristotle to Neural Networks. Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art, Volume 342
- S. Bartha, J. Cheney, V. Belle, One down, 699 to go: or, synthesising compositional desugarings. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 2021 Link
- B. Schafer, Can one be just without being human? Legal AI and the quest for executable justice. Transformative Technologien – Wechselwirkungen zwischen technischem und rechtlichem Wandel, 2021. Link
- D. Onitiu, Algorithmic abstractions of 'fashion identity and the role of privacy with regard to algorithmic personalisation systems in the fashion domain. AI & Society, 2021. Link.