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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.

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Thursday 12 November 2026
18:30 GMT
Online · open to attend
We Are Rivals, discussing their experience of creating music using AI

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.

Coming up

Coming up

Confirmed upcoming sessions.

Guest presentation · Music and creativity

We Are Rivals: Wake Tomorrow

We Are Rivals
Dez, Niall and Andy

Online AI Club session

Wake Tomorrow cover artwork: a human figure among humanoid machines in a dark futuristic landscape, with the band name above and song title below.

Session overview

We Are Rivals are a UK alternative rock band. Their single, “Wake Tomorrow”, has a release date of 5 November 2026.

The song explores our relationship with technology and the things we create, asking what happens when they become more capable than we ever imagined.

The track provides a starting point for a wider discussion about AI, human creativity and the value of the human connection behind art.

In this presentation, band members Dez, Niall and Andy will share their perspectives on these themes before concluding with an exclusive full play of the song and its accompanying video.

A preview of the track and links to the band’s social channels can be found on their website.

Visit We Are Rivals’ website

Programme update

Postponed presentations

Guest presentation

When the Connection Drops: Keeping AI and Robot Tasks Under Control

Bayram Yüksel Eker
Founder and Technical Lead, Neura Parse Ltd

New date to be confirmed

Online via Google Meet · open to attend
20-minute talk + 10-minute Q&A

Bayram Yüksel Eker's presentation, originally scheduled for 29 October 2026, has been postponed. A new date will be announced when confirmed.

Session overview

What should happen when an AI agent or robot loses its connection midway through a task? Bayram Yüksel Eker explores how to preserve task state, distinguish confirmed actions from uncertain outcomes, and decide when a task can resume with human approval.

Drawing on Neura Parse’s work on NODERIQ and NeuraOS, a simulation and software walkthrough follows an interrupted task through recovery. The session examines what the operator needs to know, when the system should pause, and how to keep the recovery decision traceable.

Who it is for

AI practitioners, software engineers, robotics developers and anyone interested in human oversight of connected systems. No specialist robotics or quantum-computing knowledge is needed.

Key takeaways

  1. Understand task state

    Distinguish completed actions, pending steps and uncertain outcomes after a connection drops.

  2. Choose the approval point

    Identify the evidence an operator needs before deciding whether a task can resume.

  3. Keep recovery traceable

    Record the interruption, supporting evidence and human decision together.

Bayram Yüksel Eker

About the speaker

Bayram Yüksel Eker is the founder and technical lead of Neura Parse Ltd. He works across AI systems, robotics research and quantum computing, focusing on task continuity, human oversight and evidence that supports reliable decisions.

Bayram Yüksel Eker Neura Parse Ltd
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Previous sessions

Previous sessions

Explore recordings of previous AI Club presentations, shared with the permission of the speakers.

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Louise Mead — view her GitHub profile

· Latest recording

Less is More: Building Practical AI Tools

Louise Mead

In Less is More, Louise Mead shares some of the AI projects she has been developing independently, exploring practical applications of AI and what individuals can achieve by building their own tools.

Drawing on her experience in recruitment and talent acquisition, Louise discusses projects from her personal AI lab, including labour market research, personalised audio briefings and AI assistants.

The presentation provides an insight into independent AI experimentation and the opportunities these technologies create for individuals to develop their own solutions.

View Louise’s GitHub

YouTube thumbnail for Louise Mead’s Less is More presentation
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· Relaunch session

The Intent Graph: Rebuilding Web Identity for the Agentic Internet

Daramola Benjamin
Founder of Levered

About the presentation

Daramola Benjamin explores how AI agents are changing web identity, discovery and decision-making, introducing a technical framework connecting entities, behavioural signals, inferred intent, forecasts, decisions and measurable outcomes.

Watch the recording
Video preview: Daramola Benjamin — The Intent Graph, AI Club, 17 September 2026

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.

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Member presentations

Share something you are building, researching, learning about or trying to understand.

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Questions and discussion

Ask questions, test an argument and hear perspectives you may not have considered.

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Constructive criticism

Ideas should be open to challenge. Criticism should help us improve our explanations, arguments and work.

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Different perspectives

AI raises technical, scientific, social, psychological, economic, legal, political and philosophical questions.

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Guest speakers and activities

Sessions may also include guest speakers, demonstrations, collaborative learning and other activities.

Ongoing discussion

Join the conversation

AI Club also has a Zulip community for ongoing discussion, sharing work, asking questions and exchanging ideas.

Continue a session’s discussion or start a new technical or interdisciplinary conversation. You can join the Zulip community without becoming an AI Club member.

Join the AI Club Zulip community
AI Club’s Zulip community, with channels for AI and society, engineering, philosophy, projects and sessions.

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 presentation

Presentation 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.

Preferred length
Presentation preferences

Recording and publication are optional. You can present at AI Club without choosing either of them.

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.

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Our three principles

  1. Have an enquiring mind.
  2. Be constructive, and approach other members and their contributions with the intention of helping one another.
  3. 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

Archived 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 project graphic

Member presentation

PhotoCAD

A member introduced a project and invited practical questions and feedback from the group.

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ClimateInsight project graphic

Project

ClimateInsight

An example of the research and practical projects that members have brought to the club.

View ClimateInsight
Mark Rogers of Grounded AI

Guest speaker

Mark Rogers

Guest speakers are part of the club’s programme alongside its regular member-led sessions.

aweb.ai logo and branding

Website

aweb.ai

aweb.ai was discussed during a previous AI Club session.

Visit aweb.ai
LLM Wiki resource card

Resource

LLM Wiki

Andrej Karpathy’s notes on LLM-maintained knowledge bases were discussed by the group.

Read the GitHub Gist
Book card for Agentic Coding with OpenAI Codex CLI

Book

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
Book card for The Infinity Machine

Book

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
Remotion resource card

Resource

Remotion

Remotion was discussed as a tool for creating video programmatically.

Visit Remotion
For session recordings, see Previous sessions.

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Contact

Tom Jackson, chair of AI Club

Get in touch

The current chair of AI Club is Tom Jackson, infrastructure engineer at bitknowledge and OpenAI Consultative Solutions Practitioner.

For questions about the club, suggestions for future sessions, collaboration opportunities or getting involved, contact Tom at tom.jackson@bitknowledge.com.