Humanity & AI Research Group | School of Law

The Humanities and AI Research Group is a dynamic, collaborative, and flexible team that brings together experts from diverse disciplines to explore and address critical issues at the intersection of human experience and artificial intelligence. Our mission is to foster interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary engagement, where specialised expertise is coordinated to produce impactful outputs such as workshops, publications, and consultation responses. We are particularly invested in shaping a future where AI is not only innovative and efficient but also ethically aligned with humanity's values and social norms.

Check out our areas of interest in this field under our individual profiles below, and if you are interested in collaborating or learning more, please contact the convenor or the respective group members.

Titilayo Adebola

Intellectual Property, Technology & Innovation, Knowledge Governance, Socio-Economic Development

Kevin Allan

The psychology of human-AI interaction

Abbe Brown

Intellectual property, intersections with other fields

Luci Carey

Maritime Shipping, AI Navigation, Remote Operations

Irene Couzigou

International regulation of AI, AI and cybersecurity, AI and international responsibility, governance of online platforms

Rossana Ducato

Regulation of AI, Text and Data Mining, Right to Research, Comparative Law

JP Fassnidge

Criminal justice and AI, Criminal responsibility, mental states, and AI, Normative thinking and AI decision-making, AI and normative agency

Nevena Jevremovic

Structural relationship between (private) law, power, and capital in international trade and investment

Claudio Lombardi

Competition Law and Policy,  Law and Economics of Innovation and Digital Markets,  Private Comparative Law

Nicolas Le Bigre

Creativity, Humanity, and AI, Ethical Implementation of AI, Ethical Datasets

Michiel Poesen

Private International Law, Artificial Intelligence, Digital technology, Civil liability

Yaji Sripada

Human-AI Interaction

Andrew Starkey

Explainable AI, Green AI, Ethical AI

Clare Sutherland

Face Perception, Human Biometrics, Face AI, Social Cognition, Social Psychology

Research Activities & Outputs

Consultations

, 2025, Moorhouse, L. G., Ferguson, E., Couzigou, I., Moran, C. F., Walters, A. G., Benli, M. N., Allan, K., Brown, A., Starkey, A., Le, X. T., Poesen, M., De Gioia Carabellese, P.

, 2025, Zivkovic, P., Adebola, T., Allan, K., Ducato, R., Leontidis, G., Lombardi, C., Sinclair, A., Starkey, A., Sripada, S., Brown, A. (ed.), Jevremovic, N. (ed.)

Consultation Response to the UK Government’s Policy Proposals on AI Regulation: A Pro-Innovation Approach, 2023, Zivkovic, P., Carey, L., Cserne, P., Lombardi, C., Poesen, M., Sripada, S., Sutherland, C., Taylor, R., Le, X. T., Adebola, T. (ed.), 黑料网: School of Law.

Response to the AI Independent Review Consultation (Scottish AI Alliance)

Events

Event: Workshop

Tittle: Multidisciplinary Workshop on Genius, Creation, and Humanity in the Age of AI

Date: 19 September 2024

Venue: 黑料网

Event: Reading seminar

Paper:

Discussants: Zsolt Z艖di and Mátyás Bódig

Date: 24 September 2024

Venue: 黑料网

Event: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues

Topic: XAI for the GDPR User

Presenter: Dr Yaji Sripada

Date: 16 February 2023

Venue: 黑料网

Event: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues

Title: TDM exceptions

Presenter: Dr Rossana Ducato

Date: 11 March 2024

Venue: 黑料网

Relevant Publications

AI Hyperrealism: Why AI Faces Are Perceived as More Real Than Human Ones, 2023 – Published, Miller, E. J., Steward, B. A., Witkower, Z.,鈥疭utherland, C. A. M., Krumhuber, E. G., Dawel, A., Psychological Science, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1390-1403, Contributions to Journals: Articles [ONLINE] DOI:鈥� [OPEN ACCESS]鈥�

Resistance through the Temporality, Placement, and Modification of Street Art in Scotland’s Streets 2023 – Published, Le Bigre, N., Ethnologia Fennica, vol. 50, no. 1 Contributions to Journals: Articles [ONLINE] DOI:鈥� [OPEN ACCESS]鈥�

Play and Vulnerability in Scotland during the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023 – Published, Le Bigre, N. Play in a COVID-19 Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation. Beresin, A., Bishop, J. (eds.). Open Book Publishers, pp. 239-364, 25 pages, Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed) [ONLINE] DOI:鈥� [OPEN ACCESS]鈥�

Contesting ‘Integration’: Personal-Experience Narratives of Scotland’s Immigrants, 2022 – Published, Le Bigre, N. Cambio. Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali, vol. 11, pp. 29-39 Contributions to Journals: Articles, [ONLINE] DOI:鈥� [OPEN ACCESS]鈥痟ttps://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/20375/1/LeBigre_RSTS_Contesting_Integration_Personal_Experience_VoR.pdf

The Role of Patents and Licensing in the Governance of Human Genome Editing: A White Paper, 2021鈥�– Published Matthews, D.,鈥疊rown, A., Emanuela, G., Timo, M., Ana, N., Jacob S, S., Jakob, W., van Zimmerman, E., Aisling, M., Working Papers: Working Papers鈥痆ONLINE]鈥�

Body extension and the law: medical devices, intellectual property, prosthetics and marginalisation (again),鈥�2018 – Published鈥疊rown, A., Harmon, S. H. E., O'Connor, R., Popat, S., Whatley, S.鈥疞aw, Innovation and Technology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 161-184 [ONLINE] DOI:鈥€痆OPEN ACCESS]鈥�

All Hands off Deck? The Legal Barriers to Autonomous Ships, 2017 – Published Carey, L. The Journal of International Maritime Law, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 202-219 Contributions to Journals: Articles [ONLINE] DOI:鈥�

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