Our mission

Bringing people together

Drawing inspiration from Enlightenment-era intellectual gatherings, we unite researchers, innovators, and thought leaders in AI to create a community that fosters collaboration.

Through purposefully designed interaction spaces, our aim is to accelerate AI security research, catalyse unexpected collaborations, and foster a culture of ambition, curiosity, and debate.

Serendipity as strategy

At the core, our mission is to cultivate serendipity. We recognise that many breakthrough ideas emerge from chance encounters, unexpected conversations, and the collision of diverse perspectives. The UK AI Forum deliberately designs spaces and interactions that maximise these valuable opportunities.

We create environments where domain specialists can step outside their immediate focus areas. By removing institutional barriers and creating shared intellectual contexts, we believe that we can increase the probability of transformative connections.

A space for foundational thinking

The UK AI Forum provides a crucial platform where researchers and professionals across technical, policy, and philosophical domains can deeply engage with foundational questions surrounding transformative AI and its societal impact.

We create deliberate space for discussions that often get sidelined in day-to-day technical work: questions about AI alignment, governance frameworks, distribution of benefits, long-term trajectories, and humanity's future relationship with increasingly powerful systems. These conversations aren't peripheral but essential to developing AI that genuinely serves human flourishing.

Our events encourage participants to step back from immediate technical challenges to consider broader contexts and implications.