BRAID UK

Felicity Hammond: END-OF-LIFE-SERVICE
2026-01-29 16:30 - 19:30 UTC | Inspace, Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, United Kingdom
Stills, in collaboration with BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) and Inspace, will be hosting this experimental and playful event in the form of a funeral procession and an early evening wake where you are encouraged to explore the challenges of AI, and to create and share your eulogies to it.
The event marks both the declared end-of-life of Artificial Intelligence and the final month of Stills’ current exhibition Felicity Hammond – V4: Repository – the final iteration of the artist’s Variations series, commissioned through the Ampersand/Photoworks fellowship.

Technomoral Conversation: What’s the Story with AI? Exploring AI Narratives
2026-02-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF, United Kingdom
Join the latest event in the Technomoral Conversations series: What’s the Story with AI? Exploring AI Narratives and Counter-Narratives. Hear insights on the dominant narratives around AI and what alternative stories can and are being told about AI and its place in our futures.
The Technomoral Conversations series brings together leaders, creators and innovators from academia, technology, business and the third sector in a ‘fireside chat’ format to discuss futures that are worth wanting.
During this fireside chat, we will hear critical insights from experts across academia and industry on the dominant narratives surrounding AI, and what alternative stories can be and are being told about AI and its place in our futures.
Chaired by Dr Alex Taylor (University of Edinburgh), this Technomoral Conversation will feature Dr Abeba Birhane (Trinity College Dublin), Professor Louise Amoore (Durham University), and John Thornhill (Financial Times).
This event is a collaboration between the Centre for Technomoral Futures, the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) Programme and the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Please note this is a hybrid event.
This event will be live-captioned. If you would like to attend with BSL interpreters, please let us know by contacting the event organisers at ctmf@ed.ac.uk
Important notice: This event will be photographed/recorded, and images may be used for future marketing, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed, please let organisers know at the event.

Authenticity & AI
2026-02-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF
Authenticity & AI: Does the origin story of your work still matter? A workshop for musicians and music researchers exploring new questions around origins and originality in the era of ubiquitous machine-made music.
About
The rise of AI in music is forcing us to confront the very nature of authenticity. What makes your music ‘yours’ when a machine can generate sounds that are, on the face of it, indistinguishable from a human creator?
Recent developments in the area of Artificial Intelligence and music have brought a new focus on copyrights, process, technique and sonic identity. Alongside the rich possibilities for creative musical practices are new questions for creators and audiences. What do creators now need to share of their processes to explain the origins of their ideas and sounds? What do they feel is important for audiences to know about the provenance of their work? What do audiences want to know? How much should broadcasters disclose? What do composers/singer songwriters need to know about the origins of the materials they might be using in their work? How much is too much information?
Do you feel AI places your creative identity at risk? Do you feel the authenticity of your work or process challenged? Will you divulge aspects of your practice which, before the advent of AI,you kept hidden? Do you feel equipped to defend yourself against the threats you perceive? Or are these threats at all?
If you are a composer, performer, producer, promoter, record label, youth worker, community musician, music student, researcher, audio software developer, established creator or just starting out in the field, we want to meet you in Edinburgh between 2 and 4pm on 20 February to talk about these issues and other challenges and opportunities in front of your creative practices and cultural contributions.
Following the workshop, there will be a panel discussion with positions offered from leading practitioners in the field of AI and music, running 4:30-5:30pm.
To register interest in attending this event Please sign up here.
Please note that space is limited, and participation will be allocated based on the order of registration and the information provided in the sign-up form, to ensure that the event brings together attendees with a strong connection to the themes under discussion. We are expecting dynamic and discursive contributions from participants. Refreshments will be provided and we can offer £10 in vouchers to help offset travel costs.
The workshop is part of the “Embracing the Complexities of Authenticity” project, supported by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides Programme, with funds received from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshop is hosted by the Edinburgh chapter of the UNESCO Week of Sound.
You will be asked to sign a participant consent form at the start of the workshop, please email cmoruzzi@ed.ac.uk if you would like to receive the form via email in advance.

Authenticity & AI in Moving Image
2026-03-24 14:00 - 16:00 | University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EY, United Kingdom
The rise of AI in video and film is forcing us to confront the very nature of authenticity. What makes your moving image ‘yours’ when a machine can generate videos that are, on the face of it, indistinguishable from a human creator?
The rise of AI in video and film is forcing us to confront the very nature of authenticity. What makes your moving image ‘yours’ when a machine can generate videos that are, on the face of it, indistinguishable from a human creator?
Recent developments in the area of Artificial Intelligence and media have brought a new focus on copyrights, process, technique and visual identity. Alongside the rich possibilities for new creative practices with video there are new questions for creators and audiences. What do creators now need to share of their processes to explain the origins of their ideas and the videos and films they make? What do they feel is important for audiences to know about the provenance of their work? What do audiences want to know? How much should broadcasters disclose? What do videographers/ editors/ producers need to know about the origins of the materials they might be using in their work? How much is too much information?
Do you feel AI places your creative identity at risk? Do you feel the authenticity of your work or process challenged? Will you divulge aspects of your practice which, before the advent of AI, you kept hidden? Do you feel equipped to defend yourself against the threats you perceive? Or are these threats at all?
If you are a videographer, film maker, editor, director, producer, video artist, media student, media technologist, researcher, established creator or just starting out in the field, we want to meet you in London between 2 and 4pm on 24 March to talk about these issues and other challenges and opportunities in front of your creative practices and cultural contributions.
Following the workshop, there will be a panel discussion with positions offered from leading practitioners in the field of AI and video.
Participation
Registration will close on March 16 at 5pm. Please note that space is limited, and participation will be allocated based on the order of registration and the information provided in the sign-up form, to ensure that the event brings together attendees with a strong connection to the themes under discussion. We are expecting dynamic and discursive contributions from participants. Refreshments will be provided and we can offer £10 in vouchers to help offset travel costs.
You will be asked to sign a participant consent form at the start of the workshop, please email cmoruzzi@ed.ac.uk if you would like to receive the form via email in advance.
Image credit:
Elise Racine / Static / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0

Truth, Trust and Trickery in the AI Age
2026-04-15 18:30 - 19:30 | The Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh, EH8 9BT, United Kingdom
Can you seek out what’s true in today’s tsunami of AI slop? Generative AI is prompting an information crisis as fakes and fiction flood social media and chatbot hallucinations pollute our news streams. We’ll help you navigate this new frontier of video, image and language generation. In our interactive workshop you’ll learn from the BBC Blue Room about the latest tools and techniques and tackle dilemmas as a journalist in our pop-up newsroom.
Presented by BRAID, BBC R&D, and The University of Edinburgh as part of Edinburgh Science Festival.
Image credit:
Rose Willis & Kathryn Conrad / A Rising Tide Lifts All Bots / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0

AI Futures Hack: Creating Radical Infrastructures
2026-05-06 11:00 - 17:00 | Sussex Humanities Lab, Falmer Hill, Brighton, BN1 9RH, United Kingdom
Design alternative community-oriented AI infrastructures in a hackathon examining energy systems, reparative models, and DIY tech.
What could the future of AI infrastructure look like? Inspired by critical African/AfroFuturisms, Transfeminist futurology and piercing prophecies of CripTech, the AfroFutures_UK collective, in association with University of Sussex will host a day spent examining, coding and hacking away to build community-oriented infrastructures of future AI. Part unconference, part hackathon, the day will be spent looking at the following strands:

Energy infrastructures – Creating solution architecture for technology that can give back what it receives
Reparations as requirement – Digging into ways that replenishment, regeneration and liability impact should feed into AI system requirements whilst building to meet those criteria
Bricolage hardware – Repurposing old tech, the unrecyclable, and more to build the physical infrastructure to support AI alternatives

If you are interested in contributing to the preceding online design jams, get in touch: afrofutures.uk@gmail.com.
AI FUTURES HACK: CREATING RADICAL INFRASTRUCTURES is a special episode of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab Digital Methods Accelerator programme, it is supported by BRAID UK and AfroFutures_UK.
This event is free and open to all, but registration is required. Refreshments will be provided.
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Creative and Tech Professionals Unconference in Edinburgh with BRAID UK X techUK X Google DeepMind
2026-06-18 09:00 - 13:00 | Codebase, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2EL, United Kingdom
This event aims to facilitate meaningful discussions around present-day challenges for responsible AI practitioners and professionals in the creative industries. It is intended to bring together sole-practitioners and SMEs, professionals that support the creative industries (e.g. through research, policy, governance, compliance etc), tech leaders involved with innovation within the creative industries (e.g. film/TV, designers, music, fashion, gaming etc), engineers and developers who build products for creative industries, and investors or sponsors of R&D across the creative industries.
By providing a platform for topic proposals and group discussions, attendees will have the opportunity to exchange insights, address challenges, and foster collaboration in the field of responsible AI. Together we will:

Build community between existing practitioners and professionals
Figure out the key challenges and current sentiment in the space to shape future directions for innovation and programming that is by/for community
Drive partnerships and funding between industry-academic/practitioners
Open up conversation between industry and practitioners

Finding popularity in the Tech sector in the mid-nineties, Unconference formats represented a move away from formal conferences with attendees given the freedom to create the event they wanted. This will be a participant-driven event. Unlike traditional conferences, there’s no predetermined agenda. We will be asking participants to suggest topics on the day.
Ultimately, this will allow attendees to discuss some of the most significant and timely digital ethics issues facing us today and their bearing on future AI innovation. This format will facilitate the exploration of diverse subjects; fostering creativity, peer-to-peer learning, and tackling rapidly changing areas of interest in responsible AI. It is an opportunity to build connections with those working in the field and engage in knowledge-sharing and collaborative problem-solving.
This event is tailored for responsible AI professionals and creative practitioners, including techUK’s Digital Ethics Working Group and the wider digital ethics ecosystem for this gathering, as well as BRAID’s responsible AI research and industry network. For that reason, it is invite-only.
Join us to connect with fellow creative practitioners and tech professionals across the digital ethics community and responsible AI ecosystem. Whether you’re looking to learn from others’ experiences, contribute your insights, find potential partners, or expand your professional network, this event provides a unique opportunity to join forces to address present-day challenges. Please fill out this expression of interest form to register your interest.

Creative Practitioners and Tech Innovation: Discipline Roundtables Hosted by BRAID UK X techUK X Google DeepMind
2026-06-18 12:00 - 16:00 | Codebase, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2EL, United Kingdom
This invite-only series of creative discipline specific roundtables brings together creative practitioners and academics alongside venture capitalists, funders, and industry leaders for an afternoon of meaningful dialogue and connection.
12:00 to 13:30 – lunch & showcase
13:30 to 16:00 – roundtable
The session will open with a scene-setting address to establish context and ambition for the discussion. Following this, participants will engage in focused conversation about the key challenges and opportunities at the intersection of creative practice and technology innovation, with the aim of fostering partnerships, exploring pilot projects, and identifying funding opportunities. Each roundtable will be dedicated to one of the following disciplines, please be sure to note your area of specialty when you submit an expression of interest:

Music
Visual Arts & Cultural Heritage
Performance
Publishing
Design

Our aim is to build community among existing industry practitioners, professionals, and academics, while gaining a clear understanding of the current challenges and sentiment in this space. These insights will shape future programming that is designed by and for the community. We’re particularly focused on facilitating productive partnerships and funding connections between industry and academic or practitioner networks, and creating space for open, productive dialogue between industry stakeholders and creative practitioners. Please fill out the expression of interest form here to share your interest.
