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Best Demo Award at AAMAS 2025

Professor Sebastian Stein — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:37:29 +0000

We’re excited to announce that CCAIS researchers have won the Best Demonstration Award at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025), the leading conference on multiagent systems. In our demo “Serious Games for Ethical Preference Elicitation”, we explore how to better understand human ethical preferences to guide autonomous agents. We […]

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Are You Smarter Than AI? CCAIS at SOTSEF

Professor Sebastian Stein — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 23:00:00 +0000

On 15th March, we participated in the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF), which welcomes 5,000+ members of the public each year. Under the heading “Are you smarter than AI”, we offered a range of activities, including a live Turing test that challenged visitors to tell a chatbot from a (human!) CCAIS researcher, a challenge […]

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BBC News interview on electric cars

Professor Sebastian Stein — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:24:55 +0000

Prof Seb Stein is interviewed by BBC News CCAIS lead Prof Seb Stein was interviewed on BBC News on 5th September to comment on Volvo’s decision to abandon their commitment to sell only fully electric cars by 2030. While disappointing for electric car proponents, this comes in the wake of slower electric car sales across […]

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BBC interview on deepfakes

Professor Sebastian Stein — Fri, 17 May 2024 08:38:10 +0000

Dr Jennifer Williams talks to the BBC about deepfakes Did you know that you only need a few seconds of someone’s voice to impersonate them using AI? Dr Jennifer Williams, CCAIS academic and leading expert on voice AI and voice deepfakes, was interviewed by BBC presenter Ricky Boleto for Newsround. Dr Williams talked about the […]

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Interspeech 2023 Overview

Dr Jennifer Williams — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:59:47 +0000

CCAIS academic Dr Jennifer Williams co-organises leading speech conference The Interspeech 2023 conference was held in August in Dublin, Ireland. This flagship conference in speech technology brought together international participants across many scientific disciplines including linguistics, cognitive science, and a wide variety of speech technology capabilities. CCAIS member Dr Jennifer Williams was a local organizer […]

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C-MAS Workshop

Behrad Koohy — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:54:38 +0000

First Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems The first international workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems (C-MAS 2023) was held on May 30, 2023, in London, UK. The workshop focused on citizen-centric multiagent systems as human-AI systems that treat citizen end users as primary agents with diverse needs and preferences. The workshop attracted over 50 participants from […]

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Blue Sky Paper: Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems

Professor Sebastian Stein — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:50:01 +0000

A new Blue Sky paper “Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems” from the CCAIS team advocates for AI systems that place citizens at the centre of their design. Presented at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, it outlines an approach where citizens control their data and intelligent agents represent them. The paper discusses open challenges […]

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