Project overview

The UKRI TAS Hub assembles a team from the Universities of Southampton, Nottingham and King’s College London. The Hub sits at the centre of the £33M Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme, funded by the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund.

The role of the TAS Hub is to coordinate and work with six research nodes to establish a collaborative platform for the UK to enable the development of socially beneficial autonomous systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice by individuals, society and government.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Connect with Gopal

Email: sdr1@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng FCGI

Director of WSI
Research interests
  • Web Science
  • AI Policy
  • Artificial Intelligence
Connect with Dame Wendy

Email: wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Diana Eccles

Dean of Medicine
Research interests
  • Genetic predispostion to cancer
  • Cancer susceptibility variant interpetation and clinical application
  • Patient communication to optimise shared decision making
Connect with Diana

Email: D.M.Eccles@soton.ac.uk

Professor Michael Butler

Dean of Engineering and Physical Science
Connect with Michael

Email: M.J.Butler@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Neville Stanton

Research interests
  • Ergonomics and Human Factors methods
  • Distributed cognition and distributed situation awareness
  • The effects of automation on human tasks, mainly focused on the development of vehicle automation in road transport
Connect with Neville

Email: N.Stanton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Age Chapman

Professor of Computer Science
Connect with Age

Email: Adriane.Chapman@soton.ac.uk

Professor Paurav Shukla

Professor of Marketing
Research interests
  • Luxury consumption
  • Brand management 
  • Consumer behaviour and self-identity 
Connect with Paurav

Email: P.V.Shukla@soton.ac.uk

Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design
Connect with James

Email: J.P.Scanlan@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ann-Marie Hughes

Associate Professor
Connect with Ann-Marie

Email: A.Hughes@soton.ac.uk

Professor Christian Enemark BA, LLB, PhD

Professor in International Relations
Research interests
  • Ethics of war and peace
  • Politics of global health
  • International security
Connect with Christian

Email: C.Enemark@soton.ac.uk

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Deputy Director SMMI
Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

Professor Michael Boniface CEng, FIET

Professorial Fellow in Information Techn
Research interests
  • Artifical intelligence for health systems
  • Human centred interactive systems
  • Federated systems management 
Connect with Michael

Email: M.J.Boniface@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

ChatGPT, extended: large language models and the extended mind
Paul Smart, Robert Clowes & Andy Clark, 2025, Synthese, 205(6), 1–30
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-025-05046-y
Type: article
Loyal wingmen, artificial intelligence, and cognitive enhancement: a warning against cyborg-drone warfare
Christian Enemark, 2025, Journal of Military Ethics
DOI: 10.1080/15027570.2025.2507458
Type: article
AI and climate resilience governance
Sara Mehryar, Vahid Yazdanpanah & Jeffrey Tong, 2024, iScience, 27(6)
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109812
Type: review
Formal specification of actual trust in multiagent systems
Michael Akintunde, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Asieh Fathabadi, Corina Cirstea, Mehdi Dastani & Luc Moreau, 2024
Type: conference
Responsible use of citizen-centric AI
Sarah Kiden, Vahid Yazdanpanah & Sebastian Stein, 2024
Type: other
Actual Trust in Multiagent Systems
Michael Akintunde, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Asieh Salehi Fathabadi, Corina Cirstea, Mehdi Dastani & Luc Moreau, 2024
Type: conference
On the legal aspects of responsible AI: adaptive change, human oversight, and societal outcomes
Daria Onitiu, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Adriane Chapman, Enrico Gerding, Stuart E. Middleton & Jennifer Williams, 2023
Type: conference