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AI Insights

Reflections, commentary and analysis from the King’s AI community.

Curated by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, AI Insights brings together thought pieces, spotlights on people and projects from across King’s, and event takeaways. It showcases interdisciplinary research that uses AI to tackle societal, environmental and global challenges, while asking what responsible, inclusive and transparent AI looks like in practice.

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17 February 2026

Shall we play a game?

Professor Kenneth Payne remarks on his latest study of LLMs navigating a nuclear simulation.

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Meet some of the innovative people advancing research both in and with artificial intelligence at King's College London.

Eric Orenstein cleaning the Scripps Plankton Camera on Scripps Pier at UCSD. Photo credit: Paul Roberts

Meet: Dr Eric Orenstein

Somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of the animals living in the deep ocean have never been seen, described, or named. We have no idea who they are. And the AI systems we're building to find them are being trained on a world that's already disappearing. Learn about what Dr Eric Orenstein's focus as an AI+ Fellow at King's is.

Read his Spotlight.

 

Liane Canas looks to camera while sitting at her desk which has three monitors on it

Meet: Dr Liane dos Santos Canas

By the time a disease shows symptoms, it may have been developing silently for years. Dr Liane dos Santos Canas wants to change that. As an AI+ Fellow at King's College London, she's building models that track how individual bodies age over time, aiming to catch risk early enough to act before irreversible damage occurs.

Read her Spotlight.

 

A photograph of Christopher Banerji

Meet: Dr Christopher Banerji

Dr Christopher Banerji is working to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) serves rather than replaces human expertise in healthcare, building systems designed to work alongside clinicians in high-stakes decision-making.

Read his Spotlight.

 

Robert Laidlow stands smiling while holding a stack of music sheet paper. There are some orchestra musicians in the background

Meet: Dr Robert Laidlow

Dr Robert Laidlow is exploring what happens when we stop trying to make AI sound human and start discovering what music can become when we embrace the fundamentally alien ways that machines hear, process, and create sound.

Read his Spotlight.

 

Oya Celiktutan (right) poses for a headshot with one of her robots (left)

Meet: Dr Oya Çeliktutan

Dr Oya Çeliktutan builds the kind of robots we want to be around: robots that can read social cues, respond appropriately, and stay calm under pressure.

 

Read her Spotlight.

 

Daniel Chavez Heras smiling to camera in front of shrubbery

Meet: Dr Daniel Chávez Heras

Dr Daniel Chávez Heras teaches machines to watch films – not to replace human viewers, but to help archives, researchers and artists understand screen culture in new ways.

Read his Spotlight.

 

Anita Grigoriadis smiling to camera

Meet: Professor Anita Grigoriadis

Professor Anita Grigoriadis’s groundbreaking cancer research, which has secured significant government funding, harnesses the power of AI to identify complex multimodal patterns that are early indicators of the disease.

Read her Spotlight.

 

Elena Simperl smiling to camera

Meet: Professor Elena Simperl

Professor Elena Simperl is helping shape how AI systems can be grounded in human knowledge in order for them to become more transparent, safer and reliable to all.

Read her Spotlight.

 

Oguz Acar smiling to camera. There is a red London bus and red telephone box

Meet: Professor Oguz A Acar

Learning how to embrace technology without stemming creative control.

Nearly two decades ago Professor Oguz A. Acar was working as a brand manager for an alcoholic beverage company in his native country Türkiye. A far cry from his current role at King’s Business School, perhaps, but an experience that helped shape the career path he still follows today.

Read his Spotlight.

 

Mike Cook sitting on a bench in a park, looking towards the camera

Meet: Dr Mike Cook

Turning a childhood love of gaming into a lifelong career in AI.

Scents, soundtracks, and souvenirs; each of these things have a way of triggering that fuzzy nostalgic feeling that takes you right back to the place you were when you first encountered it. For Dr Mike Cook, that sense of reminiscence comes in the form of classic 1990s video games.

Read his Spotlight.