AI Futures Lab

Rights & Justice

The AI Futures Lab on Rights and Justice uses relational prototyping to radically re-imagine the regulation of digital technologies. We carry out impact-oriented research to support rights and justice around AI and related technologies through imagining possible futures. We are a community of researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds who take a socio-technical, justice-oriented approach to developing more intimate and collaborative relations between design, law, technology and society. We work with different methodological approaches including empirical research, legal research, co-speculation and participatory approaches. Our research aims to center and support those with less power in their interactions and relations with technology, working towards more just futures for all.

The AI Futures Lab is part of the TU Delft AI Labs programme.

Publications

Events

News

Key publications

Tsiakas, K., and Murray-Rust, D. (2024). Unpacking Human-AI interactions: From interaction primitives to a design space. Computer Science: Human-Computer Interaction.
Wagner, Ben, Mathias C. Kettemann, Anna-Sophia Tiedeke, Felicitas Rachinger, and Marie-Therese Sekwenz. 2024. “Mapping Interpretations of the Law in Online Content Moderation in Germany.” Computer Law & Security Review.
Dideriksen, S. A. T., H. Verma, N. Cila, and D. S. Murray-Rust. 2024. “Towards Just Futures: DRS 2024: Boston” edited by C. M. Gray, E. Ciliotta Chehade, P. Hekkert, L. Forlano, P. Ciuccarelli, and P. Lloyd. Proceedings of DRS2024 Boston.
Wagner, Ben, Andy Sanchez, M. T. Sekwenz, S. A. T. Dideriksen, and D. S. Murray-Rust. 2023. “The Politics of Digital (Human) Rights: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.” in International studies association and Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press.
Murray-Rust, Dave, Maria Luce Lupetti, Iohanna Nicenboim, and Wouter van der Hoog. 2023. “Grasping AI: Experiential Exercises for Designers.” AI and Society 39(6):2891–2911.

The Team

Directors

Dave Murray-Rust

Faculty of IDE
Lab director

Ben Wagner

Faculty of TPM
Lab director

PhD's

Marie-Therese Sekwenz

PhD candidate

Deputy lab director

Floris van Krimpen

PhD candidate

Aarón Moreno Inglés

PhD candidate

Mahan Mehrvarz

PhD Candidate

Sofie-Amalie Torp Dideriksen

PhD candidate

Jorge Constantino Torres

PhD candidate

Rita Gsenger

PhD candidate (visiting)

Postdocs

Janneke Schokkenbroek

Postdoc

Johanne Kübler

Postdoc (visiting)

Sarah Ciston

Postdoc (visiting)

Till Winkler

Postdoc (visiting)

Associated faculty

Ibo van de Poel

Associated faculty

Hans de Bruijn

Associated faculty

Soheil Human

Associated faculty (visiting)

Education

Courses

2024/2025

Managing Start-ups: teamwork, leadership and AI | TBM020C
Capstone Applied AI project | TI3150TU
Managing Multi-actor Decision-making | SEN1141

Master projects

Ongoing

Intelligent sound models, Dave Murray-Rust, Tim Deltrap (2022/2023)
Relating to plant based robots, Dave Murray-Rust, Cin Yie Chang
Transparency in AI, Dave Murray-Rust, Dilara Bora
Corporate use of LLMs, Dave Murray-Rust, ZhuoTing Wang
AI for Community Climate Adaptation, Dave Murray-Rust, Timon Adriaanssen

Finished

Designing for explantion-driven trust in chatbots, C. Schneegass, Zhengquan Zhang (2022/2023)
Design HAI Interactions, Dave Murray-Rust, Jiayi Zhou (2022/2023)
Designing Robot Personalities, Dave Murray-Rust, Akmal Ahmed (2022/2023)
Remote collaboration with cognitive robots, Dave Murray-Rust, Lilly Filthaut (2022/2023)
Designing relational interactions with power grids, Dave Murray-Rust, Vicky Toellner (2022/2023)
Intelligent Timbre Space Interactions, Dave Murray-Rust, Diana Vardanyan (2022/2023)
Adapting care robot Tessa for early-stage dementia with implementation through general practitioners, Dave Murray-Rust, Rosa Elering (2021/2022)
Enabling Human-In-The-Loop Interpretability Methods of Machine Learning Models, Dave Murray-Rust, Wei Zeng (2021/2022)
Ethics, Gender, and Agents, Dave Murray-Rust, Ji-Youn Jung (2021/2022)
Designing for transparent intentions in AI powered energy systems, Elisa Giaccardi, Menu Sara Mathai Reji (2020/2021)