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KMi showcases AI innovations during Jiangsu Open University visit
Friday 23 Oct 2026The Open University welcomed this week a delegation from Jiangsu Open University for a two-day visit. During this visit, KMi’s Senior Research Fellow Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis gave the presentation “Promoting the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Teaching and Learning,” which highlighted KMi’s latest work on AI-enhanced education, including the AI Digital Assistant (AIDA), the AI […]
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Growing up online: Young voices, digital futures
Thursday 22 Oct 2026Last Friday, KMi hosted an event at The Open University as part of Milton Keynes Tech Week 2026, bringing together children aged 7 to 11 and their parents to talk about online safety. Run by experts from the Centre for Protecting Women Online (CPWO) and the KMi, the session opened with a warm welcome from […]
KMi PhD student brings his research to Amazon
Wednesday 7 Oct 2026Tanay Aggarwal, a PhD student at KMi, has joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist II for a 16-week internship in Seattle, where he will apply his doctoral research on artificial intelligence and information retrieval in an industrial setting. Tanay’s PhD, supervised by Dr Angelo Salatino, Dr Francesco Osborne, and Prof Enrico Motta, investigates how large […]
Rethinking AI in Higher Education through Metaheutagogy
Monday 5 Oct 2026KMi’s Senior Research Fellow Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis presented his latest work on AI-enhanced learning at the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online (HELMeTO 2026), held in Cagliari, Italy, from 28-30 September 2026. The conference brought together academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss advances in digital learning methodologies and technologies […]
Three new UKRI projects strengthen KMi’s leadership in AI for Metascience
Wednesday 30 Sep 2026KMi’s Francesco Osborne and Angelo Salatino, have secured UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) support for three new metascience projects worth approximately £500,000, bringing over £290,000 directly to the University. Osborne will lead the largest project, TRUST-AI-PR: Trustworthy and Robust AI Support for Peer Review, an international initiative aiming to shape the future of trustworthy artificial […]
Last week, from 15 to 17 September, the 22nd edition of the International Conference on Semantics Systems (commonly known as SEMANTiCS) took place in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium. SEMANTiCS is a globally recognised venue where researchers, industry experts, and business leaders exchange knowledge on Knowledge Graphs and Artificial Intelligence. This year’s theme “Bridging […]
Unlearning AI at ASC 2026: Queer futures, thought collectives and cyberneticsThe Shifting Power team attended the annual conference of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) in Ouro Preto, Brazil from the 3rd – 7th of August 2026. This was a new community for our team, the home community of our long-time academic partner Ben (see our podcast “Computer Séance” and our symposium “After AI?”). Given what we understood about cybernetics – its highly interdisciplinary beginnings and creative scholarship – we […]
KMi brings human-centred AI perspectives to International Digital Education Forum
Advancing AI approaches to intangible cultural heritage at a British Academy workshop in Rome
Meet the 2026 KMi Summer Scholars
Promptathon 2026: Exploring Critical AI Literacy at the OU
KMi and FBL researchers present SABRINA AI agent for ethical future-focused decision-making
