News and events

In our final staff spotlight of 2025 Director of the Centre for Assuring Autonomy, Professor John McDermid, talks about his extensive career in safety, how he came to lead the CfAA and how cross collaboration, multidisciplinary working, and a respected heritage in safety critical systems has been the key to both the AAIP's and the CfAA's success.

The Centre for Assuring Autonomy (CfAA) has announced a new content hub to give clinicians and other healthcare professionals the confidence, skills and training to implement AI technologies safely in healthcare environments.

This month we're spotlighting the work of Dr Sinem Getir-Yaman, a CfAA researcher whose work in safety methodologies is helping to address the question of how autonomous systems operate safely in the real world. In this Q&A, Dr Getir-Yaman introduces her latest project focused on the safety and security of advanced AI and the need for closer industry collaboration. 

What is Concept Creep and why do we need to think about it in the context of safety assurance?

Our first Centre for Assuring Autonomy Symposium brought together over 100 professionals and academics from across the engineering, safety assurance and regulatory landscape to ask - what does the future of autonomy look like?

The Centre for Assuring Autonomy and DNV, one of the world’s leading classification societies, have signed a £750k partnership agreement which will see the development of a safety assurance framework for autonomous navigation of maritime vessels.