2025 news
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.
Dr Jie Zou is our newest researcher here at the CfAA. In this short introduction Q&A, she shares more about her background in safe AI and what research projects she'll be working on.
A new collaboration is set to transform healthcare accessibility with the launch of a multilingual AI clinical assistant which will break down language barriers in healthcare, empowering patients to receive care in their preferred language.
Dr Tian Gan joins the CfAA as our newest Research Associate. In this blog she shares a little on her background and her focus for future work at the centre.
The CfAA has been awarded new funding to identify how Frontier AI could be safely deployed within fully autonomous driving systems.
The Centre for Assuring Autonomy has published a comprehensive approach to safety cases for the assurance of AI and autonomous systems.
York was the location for 2025’s Safety Critical Systems Symposium and the CfAA was well represented with five speakers including two keynotes covering a breadth of safety-related topics.
The AI Action Summit in Paris was a far-reaching and broad look at the breathtaking advance of AI in our world. Across the five days of events around the common theme of the benefits and risks of Frontier AI it became clear that safety – in all its forms – is a global challenge with many different facets. Here our director, Professor John McDermid OBE FREng, shares his insights as both a guest and participant in the summit.
A new Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation in AI & Digital Health Technologies (CERSI-AI) will support regulators by balancing innovation with the safe and responsible deployment of AI in healthcare.
The Centre for Assuring Autonomy has demonstrated its work in the safety assurance of a robotic arm to support safer nuclear decommissioning at a showcase for regulators and industry professionals.
Students have gained real-world experience in academic research in safe AI and autonomous systems during intern placements at the Centre for Assuring Autonomy (CfAA).
The government’s long-awaited AI Opportunities Action Plan places a welcome emphasis on the potential benefits of AI including the ability to foster growth and to provide better public services.