ABCP-CBAIA Workshop on AI Safety

Introduction

Based on a successful webinar jointly organised by Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at the University of Kent, Specialty Committee on AI and Cyber Security of ABCP (Association of British Chinese Professors), and CBAIA (China-Britain Artificial Intelligence Association) on 28 February 2025, ABCP and CBAIA are working together to organise a joint Workshop on AI Safety on 3rd May Saturday at IOE, UCL.

As implied by its name, the theme of the workshop will be around how to safeguard AI especially frontier AI models and systems such as large language models (LLMs), large vision models (LVMs) and other large AI models and systems.

The event will be held as an in-person event to allow more effective exchanges and discussions between participants, in the form of some light talks and roundtable discussions towards future R&I collaboration and joint grant applications. Remote participation may be allowed for some sessions.

At the event, we will discuss relevant ongoing and forthcoming funding calls and participants’ potential responses to such calls. These will include calls from the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, UKRI, DSIT AISI (AI Security Institute), ARIA’s Safeguarded AI programme, and other funders including large technology companies (e.g., Google Academic Research Awards and Amazon Science AI for Information Security).

To simplify the organisation of the event, we will order a delivered lunch for all participants. After the event, we recommend participants to split into smaller groups to have dinner separately (costs covered by themselves), which can help facilitate more follow-up discussions.

The event is mainly for ABCP and CBAIA Members, but we also welcome non-members to attend if they are interested in developing and/or supporting R&I activities related to AI safety.

EoI Registration

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please register your expression of interest (EoI) using the following form by 25th April Friday:

https://forms.gle/rEuu9W1TKziaxfhF8

Tentative Agenda (* = remote participation may be considered)

• 10:00-11:00: Arrival and registration
• 11:00-11:10 (*): Welcome and introduction
• 11:10-12:10 (*): Light talks by some participants
• 12:10-13:00: Lunch and networking
• 13:00-14:00 (*): Brief introduction of each other’s work and R&I interests
• 14:00-14:30 (*): Introduction to some ongoing and future funding opportunities
• 14:30-16:00: Break-out group discussions on potential R&I collaboration and joint grant applications
• 16:00-17:00 (*): Feedback from group discussions and concluding remarks
• After 17:00: Further networking and self-organised dinners of separate sub-groups

Organising Committee

• Professor Shujun Li (李树钧教授), Professor of Cyber Security & Director, Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), University of Kent; VP for IT & Governance and Co-Chair of Specialty Committee on AI and Cyber Security, ABCP
• Dr Jindong Gu (顾金东博士), Senior Research Scientist, Google; Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
• Dr Kezhi (Ken) Li (李克之博士), Associate Professor in AI in Healthcare, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London; Executive/Research Fellow, CBAIA
• Dr Zhenhai Li (李振海博士), Executive/Research Fellow, CBAIA
• Dr Tengfei Yin (尹腾飞博士), Software Development Engineer, Amazon; Executive/Research Fellow, CBAIA