This page brings together news, updates, and perspectives on artificial intelligence from across the UBC community, highlighting how researchers, students, and staff are engaging with AI technologies, exploring their impact, and shaping their future.
UBC AI News
- UBC study finds that purposeful hand gestures can boost persuasiveness and perceived competence.
- UBC research shows AI chatbots can be more persuasive than humans—raising concerns about manipulation, mental health risks and the need for safeguards.
- A UBC Sauder study finds humans still outperform AI in online sales—at least for now.
- Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.
- In this Q&A, professor Benjamin Perrin and student Nathan Cheung discuss a new upper-level course studying whether robots need rights.
- Dr. Chris Tenove, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions’s assistant director, discuss the risks and potential positive uses of generative AI in elections.
- Although AI voice enabled TikTok creators to produce longer videos and more videos per week, the sentiment of those videos were more negative.
- Researchers at UBC and BC Cancer have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can accurately predict if a person receiving cancer care will require mental health services during their treatment journey.
UBC Faculty AI News
Faculty of Computer Science
- Dr. Cristina Conati named 2025 ACM Fellow Sonja Soo Thu, 2026-01-22 13:35 UBC Computer Science Professor Cristina Conati recognized for her remarkable contributions to computing science and technology UBC Computer Science Professor…
- UBC Computer Science publishes 18 papers in leading AI conference Sonja Soo Mon, 2025-12-01 12:41 Four papers from UBC Computer Science highlighted as top papers at NeurIPS 2025 Several UBC researchers will be representing the Department of Computer Science…
- Dr. Hila Gonen brings trustworthy and reliable AI to UBC Computer Science Sonja Soo Wed, 2025-11-12 09:30 New Assistant Professor Hila Gonen to lead research group on reliability and multilinguality of language models Growing up, Hila Gonen loved all things…
- UBC Computer Science wins numerous awards at social technology design conference Sonja Soo Wed, 2025-11-05 08:07 The eDAPT group presents five papers, wins two honourable mention awards for remarkable research projects UBC’s eDAPT group, led by Dr. Joanna McGrenere…
UBC AI and Health Network News
- Eleven research projects have been funded through the inaugural UBC AI and Health Network Fellows Program, which supports researchers harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to transform health research and improve patient care across B.C. The post UBC AI and Health Network funds 11 new projects advancing responsible AI-powered health research for […]
- On October 15, 2025, Dr. Raymond Ng joined UBC President Benoit-Antoine Bacon and a panel of spinoff and industry leaders at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade event, Building a Better World Together Through Purposeful Research Partnerships. The post UBC AI and Health Network Co-Lead Dr. Raymond Ng showcases the […]
- The UBC AI & Health Network congratulates Network Member Dr. Sriram Subramaniam on a new cross-border collaboration with Boston-based Alloy Therapeutics, a partnership that combines AI and structural biology to accelerate the discovery of antibody therapeutics. The post To pandemic preparedness and beyond: Accelerating novel antibody therapeutics through cross-border collaboration […]
- We're very pleased to welcome Dr. Nabilah Chowdhury as the new Director, Network Management, UBC AI and Health Network effective September 15, 2025. The post Welcome, Nabilah Chowdhury appeared first on AI & Health Network.
Centre for AI Decision-making and Action (CAIDA) News
- News Academic experts and industry leaders gather to discuss AI’s potential in BC sectors arynnk Mon, 2025-12-15 17:00
- News Pre-Publication Notice: "Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning" (Puterman & Chan) arynnk Wed, 2025-09-17 13:01
- News Introducing Dr. Ahmet Alacaoglu arynnk Wed, 2025-08-13 13:35
- News System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling arynnk Thu, 2025-07-03 11:18