Member presentations
Share something you are building, researching, learning about or trying to understand.
Free · open · interdisciplinary
AI Club
AI Club is a free, interdisciplinary group for people interested in artificial intelligence.
We meet to share what we are working on, discuss ideas and subject them to constructive criticism. We are interested both in how AI systems are built and used, and in their wider social, psychological, economic, legal, political and philosophical implications.
You do not need to be an AI professional or expert to take part.
Regular sessions
Every other Thursday
6.30 pm UK/London
Welcome to AI Club
A new start for AI Club
AI Club has been relaunched with a stronger emphasis on members sharing their own ideas, questions and work in progress.
In this short introduction, the chair explains what the club is, who it is for and how the new presentation format works.
Sessions
What happens at a session?
AI Club sessions are built around sharing ideas. Members can present work in progress, ask questions, demonstrate projects or introduce a subject they would like to explore. We discuss what has been presented, ask questions and offer constructive criticism.
You are equally welcome to attend without presenting anything: listen, ask questions and join the discussion when you want to.
Questions and discussion
Ask questions, test an argument and hear perspectives you may not have considered.
Constructive criticism
Ideas should be open to challenge. Criticism should help us improve our explanations, arguments and work.
Different perspectives
AI raises technical, scientific, social, psychological, economic, legal, political and philosophical questions.
Guest speakers and activities
Sessions may also include guest speakers, demonstrations, collaborative learning and other activities.
Member presentations
Present something to the group
Members can request a 5, 10, 20 or 30-minute slot to present something to the group.
It does not need to be finished or polished. You might bring a project, experiment, question, argument, idea, concern, demonstration, piece of research or something you are currently learning about.
Work in progress is particularly welcome. Present it, expose it to questions and constructive criticism, develop it further, and perhaps bring it back to a future session.
5 minutes10 minutes20 minutes30 minutes
Presentations do not need to be recorded. If you choose to be recorded, publication on the AI Club YouTube channel is a separate choice.
Propose a presentationPresentation proposal
Propose a presentation
Giving a presentation, being recorded, allowing a recording to be published, and allowing the presentation to be summarised are separate choices.
You can present without being recorded, and you can agree to a recording without agreeing to public YouTube publication. You may change or withdraw consent later, subject to the practical limits of material already published or distributed.
Membership
Join AI Club
Membership is free and open to anyone with an interest in artificial intelligence, broadly defined. You do not need particular qualifications, professional experience or technical expertise.
Newsletter subscription is separate from membership.
Our three principles
- Have an enquiring mind.
- Be constructive, and approach other members and their contributions with the intention of helping one another.
- Be committed to truth-seeking: seek the best available explanations, question assumptions and be willing to change your mind when the evidence or argument warrants it.
These are the core requirements for membership.
Code of Conduct
AI Club is a place for open discussion, constructive criticism and truth-seeking.
We ask members to:
- Be respectful and considerate of others.
- Be constructive and engage in good faith.
- Criticise ideas freely, but do not attack people.
- Reject prejudice, including racism, antisemitism and sexism.
- Avoid harassment, intimidation and deliberately disruptive behaviour.
Leaving AI Club
You can leave without needing to contact anybody personally. Leave AI Club.
Fields of study
Fields of study
Artificial intelligence is not only a computer-science subject. Understanding it can involve mathematics, engineering and machine learning, but also questions about knowledge, cognition, institutions, economics, law, politics, ethics and society.
AI Club is deliberately interdisciplinary. These fields are examples of subjects members may explore, not a syllabus and not prerequisites for joining.
Mathematics
Probability, statistics, formal reasoning and the structures behind AI.
Computer science
Algorithms, programming, computation and system design.
Machine learning
Training, evaluation, optimisation and model behaviour.
Systems engineering and DevOps
Infrastructure, tooling, deployment and operating real systems.
Information and knowledge systems
Search, retrieval, databases, indexing and structured information.
Philosophy of mind
Cognition, representation, agency and intelligence.
Epistemology
Knowledge, evidence, explanation and uncertainty.
Ethics and morality
Responsibility, values, institutions and AI’s effects on people.
Sociological questions
Institutions, organisations, work, culture, social relations and power.
Psychology and cognitive science
Learning, judgement, perception, behaviour and cognition.
Economics
Incentives, markets, work, distribution and productivity.
Law, governance and politics
Rules, institutions, accountability and public power.
History and archive
Previous sessions
Earlier versions of AI Club included working through the free Hugging Face course together, experimenting with open-weight models and open-source tools on our own server, member demonstrations, project discussions and talks from guest speakers.
We learned a great deal from those activities. The relaunched club builds on that history while putting greater emphasis on members sharing ideas and work of their own.
PhotoCAD
A member introduced a project and invited practical questions and feedback from the group.
Visit PhotoCAD
ClimateInsight
An example of the research and practical projects that members have brought to the club.
View ClimateInsight
Mark Rogers
Guest speakers are part of the club’s programme alongside its regular member-led sessions.
aweb.ai
aweb.ai was discussed during a previous AI Club session.
Visit aweb.ai
LLM Wiki
Andrej Karpathy’s notes on LLM-maintained knowledge bases were discussed by the group.
Read the GitHub Gist
Agentic Coding with OpenAI Codex CLI
Daniel Vaughan’s Kindle book was among the books and resources discussed during a previous session.
View on Amazon
The Infinity Machine
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby was discussed during a previous session.
View on Amazon
Open Knowledge Foundation
The Open Knowledge Foundation was among the organisations and resources discussed at AI Club.
Visit the Open Knowledge Foundation
Remotion
Remotion was discussed as a tool for creating video programmatically.
Visit RemotionNew material from future sessions can be added here as member presentations, discussions, books, resources, websites and other contributions.
Attend and subscribe
The next session and newsletter
Membership and subscriptions
Leaving and unsubscribing
Contact
Get in touch
The current chair of AI Club is Tom Jackson, who introduces the club in the welcome video above.
For questions about the club, suggestions for future sessions, collaboration opportunities or getting involved, contact Tom at tom.jackson@bitknowledge.com.