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Science in London: The 2018/19 scientific society talks in London blog post

Thursday, 19 June 2025

How is it even possible that I've never knowingly heard of the Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence until today?!

How??

I work* in computer science-related science communication and actively go looking for interesting things to share with people, including lots about artificial intelligence. Absolutely gobsmacked to learn, while reading this in Sian Meades-Williams' freelance writing jobs newsletter, that there's a whole charity related to AI scicomm and I didn't know about it.

"The Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence - a charity that bridges the gap between public interest and robotics research - needs a part-time assistant editor."
(10hr/wk, £30.3-36.0k pro rata, clos 11 July 2025)

Amazing!

Anyway they have two websites: https://aihub.org/ and https://robohub.org/

I've shared the job advert with psci-com and pecs Jiscmail mailing lists (for science communication in general and science communication in computer science respectively) and the Association of British Science Writers list. I'll also add it to the TechDevJobs site as it's a computing-adjacent role and I collect those.

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*I work (at QMUL's Computer Science department, EECS^) at the intersection of computer science and 'scicomm' (science communication) & public engagement. Effectively I'm an embedded science writer (editor, proofreader, admin, events wrangler) on CS4FN (the Computer Science For Fun magazine and blog) which is an outreach project for schools from our department. I often write about artificial intelligence, or highlight events and interesting things to do with it - for schools, teachers, general public, colleagues.

^EECS = the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

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