About Us
Advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the benefit of humanity
Overview
The Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) is a new centre within the University of Cambridge – a world-leading institution with more than 800 years of excellence in education, learning and research.
The founding principle of CHIA is to advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the benefit humanity.
The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary community of researchers to investigate the innovative ways in which human and machine intelligence can be combined to yield AI which is capable of contributing to social and global progress.
CHIA pushes the frontiers of knowledge in this interdisciplinary approach to AI, and plays a leading role in educating the next generation of AI scientists in the area.
Designed to deliver both academic and real-world impact, the Centre seeks to partner with academic, industrial, and other organizations that share interest in human-inspired AI.
Mission
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most rapidly developing technologies today. It is predicted to transform much of our society, with far-reaching human implications. While AI has the potential to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems – ranging from poverty to pandemics, and large-scale conflicts to natural disasters – it will need to become more human to unlock this potential.
This next generation AI will not only rely on technological advances, but equally on our understanding of the human existence in all its forms: cognitive, social, creative and biological. It will combine cutting-edge machine intelligence with rich insights contributed by humanities, social, cognitive, brain, biomedical and environmental sciences. An interdisciplinary approach of this nature will yield AI that can best serve humanity.
People
CHIA brings together diverse researchers across the University to innovate next generation, human-inspired AI. It connects academics working in core and applied areas of AI (e.g., within computer science, engineering, mathematics) with world-leading experts in a wide range of human-centric disciplines (e.g., social, cognitive, brain, biomedical, environmental sciences).
The Centre is also the hub where Cambridge academics can work in collaboration with industry and other stakeholders to guide debate on research priorities, trust in new technologies and the societal impact of AI.
Support CHIA
CHIA seeks partnership with companies and donors that share our mission to advance AI for the benefit of humanity. Support from our partners will ensure that the Centre has the resources needed for innovative, interdisciplinary research on next generation, human-inspired AI. For information about our corporate programme or donations, please get in touch: contact@chia.cam.ac.uk