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From the climate crisis to personalised medicine, we are applying AI to the world’s major challenges, exploring its ethical dimensions and collaborating with industry to ensure that our research has the greatest impact.

Left to right: Nicola Ayton, Deputy Chief Executive of Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH), Feryal Clark MP, Minister for AI and Digital Government, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Deborah Prentice

Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer

13 January 2025

The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan.  

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Young woman talking with AI voice virtual assistant on smartphone

Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn

30 Dec 2024

Conversational AI agents may develop the ability to covertly influence our intentions, creating a new commercial frontier that researchers call the “...

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A mosaic of simulations included in the Well collection of datasets

New datasets will train AI models to think like scientists

02 Dec 2024

What can exploding stars teach us about how blood flows through an artery? Or swimming bacteria about how the ocean’s layers mix? A collaboration of...

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Huxley, a healthy volunteer Havanese, undergoes a physical examination at the Queen's Veterinary School Hospital, Cambridge.

AI algorithm accurately detects heart disease in dogs

29 Oct 2024

Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm to accurately detect heart murmurs in dogs, one of the main indicators of cardiac disease...

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Cambridge's Raj Jena becomes UK's first Professor of AI in radiotherapy

17 Oct 2024

The creation of the new Clinical Professorship signals the importance of AI in the fight against cancer and builds on the University’s work to apply...

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Jack Ashby talking to the Museum's fin whale

Public invited to chat to museum animals in novel AI experiment

14 Oct 2024

Specimens in a Cambridge museum will be brought to life through the power of Artificial Intelligence, by a team aiming to strengthen our connection...

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Left: Demis Hassabis; Right: John Jumper

University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

09 Oct 2024

Two University alumni, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr John Jumper, have been jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI...

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Left: Geoffrey Hinton (circled) at his Matriculation at King's College. Right: Illustration of Geoffrey Hinton

University of Cambridge alumnus awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

08 Oct 2024

Geoffrey Hinton, an alumnus of the University of Cambridge, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Hopfield of Princeton...

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Smart Choker

‘Smart choker’ uses AI to help people with speech impairment to communicate

13 Sep 2024

Researchers have developed a wearable ‘smart choker’ that uses a combination of flexible electronics and artificial intelligence techniques to allow...

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AI takes flight to revolutionise forest monitoring

26 Jul 2024

Cambridge researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve how forests are monitored. Associate Professor Dr Emily Lines and Research...

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Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge

Cambridge and SAS launch partnership in AI and advanced analytics to accelerate innovation in the healthcare sector

23 Jul 2024

The Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge and SAS , leaders in data and AI, are launching a partnership aimed at accelerating healthcare...

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Child playing on tablet

AI Chatbots have shown they have an ‘empathy gap’ that children are likely to miss

15 Jul 2024

New study proposes a framework for “Child Safe AI” following recent incidents which revealed that many children see chatbots as quasi-human and...

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AI versus cancer - the Cambridge researchers using machine intelligence to beat disease

15 Jul 2024

‘Game changing’ technology which can predict how patients will respond to cancer treatment is part of a wave of Cambridge research harnessing AI to...

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