Your journey studying Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy BSc at King's starts here

Congratulations on your offer to study with us! We've curated this hub to provide you with all the information you need to know about your course, including taster lectures, campus tour videos and student blogs. 

Although this content was up-to-date at the time it was produced, some changes to courses and teaching staff may occur. Please make sure you check our website course pages or contact us directly for the very latest information.

Below is also a list of free resources, such as taster lectures, podcasts and videos, which may also aid your preparation for studying Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy at King’s.

Watch our online Taster Lecture recorded on 15th January 2025.

View the presentation from our introduction to Informatics from our 2024 open day

Videos and podcasts

• Researchers from King’s College London have created the world’s first podcast musical - Destination Hallucination about Artificial Intelligence
• The Royal Institution has some great videos on AI & Philosophy  

Reading suggestions

For an Al-focused introduction:

• Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, Pelican 2020.
• Melanie Mitchell (2021), Why AI is Harder Than We Think arXiv:2104.12871.

For a philosophical introduction to the topics:

• Tim Crane, The Mechanical Mind: A Philosophical Introduction to Mind, Machines, and Mental Representation, Routledge 2015

Understanding your offer

I've received an offer - what next?

You might have received one of two types of offer.

• Unconditional Offer: An offer made without any prerequisites or requirements that must be fulfilled.
• Conditional Offer: An offer granted on the condition that specific criteria or requirements are met before you can secure your place on the selected course.

Read your offer letter carefully. If there is anything you don't understand or want to question, please contact the Admissions Office through your King's Apply account.

You then need to decide whether or not you wish to accept the offer from King's. The UCAS system allows you to respond to an offer in three ways:

• Firm acceptance

• Insurance acceptance

• Decline

For a detailed explanation of these responses, and deadlines to respond, see UCAS guidance.

In your UCAS Hub account you will be able to see the deadline for responding to your offer.

Still trying to decide? Have a chat to one of our students on Unibuddy, or come along to our next offer holder event

Tuition fees and funding

More information about fees can be found on our fees and funding pages.

Women in STEM Scholarship

The Faculty funds a scholarship for female undergraduate applicants, as part of its commitment to increasing the representation of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Find out more about eligibility and how to apply here.

International

If you are an international student, you can find more information about Visas and support here.

For more information, visit our advice pages.

About your course

If you are looking for more information about your course, you can find this on the main course pages:

• Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy BSc

Module lists

Module lists for the next academic year can be found under the 'Teaching & Structure' Section of the page. You can use the drop down to select the year that you would like to see the required and optional modules for.

Assessment information

If you want to know more about how your course is assessed, this can be found under the 'Teaching & Structure' section of the course page. 

Facilities

Want to find out about the facilities available to you at King's? See our pages about facilities for our Department of Informatics here

Study Abroad

Find out more about our study abroad options here

• Study Abroad

Student Experience

Recently Students from King’s College London worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to showcase their digital solutions to solve some of London’s most pressing problems.

Read more about this project or watch the video below.

Here is a link to the other subject hubs for Informatics & Philosophy

• Informatics offer holders
• Philosophy offer holders

King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence will be returning again in 2025. Hosted by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, these events are open to the public and they covered an array of topics, including philosophy, social justice, healthcare, education, sustainability, responsibility, creativity, and intelligence itself.

Read out about last year's event here

Watch the keynote lecture below from Award-winning writer Jeanette Winterson exploring why AI needs the arts.

The King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence brings together the diverse and growing community in artificial intelligence (AI) at King's College London.

The distinctiveness of King's, in our interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity, provides a context that is hard to match, and that is increasingly and absolutely recognised as the crucial pre-requisite for success in AI. As the UKRI AI Review puts it, UKRI will seek to ensure that the UK has the right environment by “promoting the interdisciplinarity and cross-sector working needed for successful advances in AI.” At King's, our AI work lies in every faculty across the entire university, with activity spanning core AI (its technical underpinnings), applications and societal implications.

Launched in 2022, our immediate aims in the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence are to create a coherent and visible presence for AI at King's, to support networking and collaboration across the King's AI community, and to provide a point of coordination within King's, and for external partnerships and collaborations.

Find out more here

Sign up for one of the institute's upcoming events

Laura Oxley runs through the kind of support you can receive from the Careers team at King's.

Recent graduates from our department of informatics have found employment within the following job roles and companies:

• Analyst Programmer, Airbus
• E-Disclosure Specialist, Stroz Friedberg
• Financial Software Developer, Goldman Sachs
• Software Developer, Bank of America
• Information Security Consultant, Merrill Lynch
• IT Consultant, Detica
• Management Trainee, Asian Media & Marketing Group

Want to know more information about student life at King's? Find some useful links below:

Accommodation

Find out more about the accommodation options available to you and how to apply here.

Budgeting

Want advice on managing your money while studying at Kings? Find more information on our pages here.

Living In London

Ranked the number 1 best student city in the world (QS Best Student Cities 2024), London has so much to offer.

Here you'll find tips and advice from our current students on exploring the city, how to tour our campuses, and more about the exciting opportunities available to you as a student studying in London.

Find out some tips and tricks for living in London in our video below:

Want to know more about life at King's or our campuses? 

• Chat with current students on Unibuddy
• Go on a tour of the Strand campus
• Sign up to an event (keep your eyes peeled for exclusive offer holder events)
• Find out about our other campuses 
• Chat with current students on Unibuddy
• Follow our Arts & Humanities Instagram

In the video below, Sally shows you around the Strand campus, where the Department of Classics in based.