- 4th Annual Meeting – Nov 10th, 2026
When: Tue, 10 Nov 2026, 10-14:00 UK time.
Where: LG04, 26 Bedford Way, UCL & Zoom. (Meeting ID + Passcode tba)
Registration: To attend in-person or remotely, please register here (in-person spots are limited).
Confirmed speakers:
• Prof Karl Friston, Professor of Neuroscience, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Neuropsychiatry, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
• Dr Megan A. K. Peters, Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology at University College London and Associate Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
• Dr Matija Franklin, Research Scientist in the Humanity, Ethics and Alignment Research Team (HEART), Google DeepMind.
• Dr Eleanor Spens, Postdoctoral Researcher in Tim Behrens’ lab at the University of Oxford and, from October 2026, Career Development Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford.
• Dr Refael Tikochinski, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.
Questions? Contact Amber Duettmann (a.r.duettmann@gmail.com) or Denis Lan (denis.cl.lan@gmail.com)
Looking forward to seeing you all!
- New MMI PhD Program
- The Third Annual MMI Meeting – Jan 6, 2026
When: Tuesday, January 6th, 15:00–17:30 UK time.
Where: LG04, Bedford Way (26) & Zoom.
Meeting ID: 980 4215 7738. Passcode: 477989
Registration: To attend in person or remotely please register here (in-person spots are limited).
Confirmed Speakers (additional speakers TBA):
Prof Murray Shanahan, Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind and Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London. What sort of thing is a large language model?
Dr Matthew M. Nour, Senior Clinical Researcher and Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Charting trajectories of human thought using large language models.
Dr Milena Tsvetkova,Associate Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science. Human-machine social systems.
Dr Jon Roozenbeek, a Lecturer in Psychology, department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. What harm and good are LLMs doing on the internet?
Questions? Contact Hadeel Haj Ali: hadil.ali.22@ucl.ac.uk
Looking forward to seeing you all!
- The Second Annual Meeting – Oct 17, 2025
We are pleased to invite you to the second annual meeting of UCL’s Minds and Machines Initiative. The event will bring together computer scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists to discuss the interplay between human cognition and machine intelligence.
When: Thursday, October 17th, 16:00 – 18:15 (UK time).
Where: Room C3.11, IOE, Bedford Way (20), WC1H 0AL.
To attend in person or remotely please register here (in-person spots are limited).
Provisional Schedule:
16:00-16:10 – Welcome
16:10 – 16:35 – Prof. Yvonne Rogers, UCL Interaction Centre & Computer Science Department, UCL.
16:35 – 17:00 – Dr. Ariel Goldstein, Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
17:00 – 17:25 – Prof. Simon Lucas, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.
17:25 – 17: 50 – Prof. Nadia Berthouze, UCL Interaction Centre.
17:50 – 18:15 – General Discussion and Q&A
Zoom Link:
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/97615381274Meeting ID: 976 1538 1274
Passcode: 389769Questions? Contact Hadeel Haj Ali: hadil.ali.22@ucl.ac.uk
Looking forward to seeing you all!
- The Launch Event – Mar 11th, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to the launch event of UCL’s Minds and Machines Initiative.
When: March 11th, 11:00-14:30 (UK time).
Where: Room 631, IOE, Bedford Way (20), WC1H 0AL.
The event will bring together computer scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists to discuss the interplay between human cognition and machine intelligence.
To attend in person or remotely please register here (Note that in-person spots are limited).
Coffee and cookies will be provided.
Questions? Contact Hadeel Haj-Ali: hadil.ali.22@ucl.ac.uk
Provisional schedule:
11:00-11:10 Welcome
11:10-11:35 – Henry Shevlin – Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, “The inevitability of ‘machine consciousness'”.
11:35-12:00 – Hatice Gunes – Affective Intelligence & Robotics Lab, University of Cambridge, From Metal Machines to Socially Intelligent Robots.
12:00 – 12:25 – Maria Eckstein & Kevin Miller, Google DeepMind, Using AI to Derive Mechanistic Models of Natural Intelligence.
12:25 – 12:50 – Raphael Koster, Google DeepMind, Fostering sustainable economic behavior with deep reinforcement learning.
12:50 – 13:05 – General Discussion
13:05 – 13:20 – Coffee Break
13:20-13:40 – Nadine Dijkstra, The MetaLab, University College London, Fundamental constraints on distinguishing imagination from reality.
13:40-14:00 – Moshe Glickman, Affective Brain Lab, University College London, Biased AI systems produce biased humans.
14:00-14:20 – Xiaoliang “Ken” Luo, Love Lab, University College London, Large language models best human experts in predicting neuroscience results.
14:20-14:30 General discussion
Zoom Link:
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/91395307209?pwd=RzJLOWoyWE0xNjZTbWRDTjdjOXl1QT09Meeting ID: 913 9530 7209
Passcode: 761456Looking forward to seeing you all!