Out of Our Minds: What is AI Doing To Us and For Us?

Yvonne Rogers is a Professor of Interaction Design at UCL. Her research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction and human-centered AI. Her current research investigates how to design AI tools to empower people, especially human decision-making and metacognition. From 2022-2024 she was the CTO of LetsThink.com, a start-up that is developing new tools to augment how people think by applying behaviour science methods to AI. From 2020-2025 she was awarded a chair of excellence at Bremen University which was set up to fund distinguished international scholars to promote collaboration. During this time, she co-developed a centre for AI and healthcare, that focussed on how personal health data could be used in combination with AI from a human-centred perspective to improve health and well-being. In 2024 she was elected as an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering. In 2022, she was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award; "presented to individuals for outstanding contributions to the study of human-computer interaction". In the same year, she was awarded the Royal Society Robin Milner Medal for Computer Science and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society as "one of the leaders who created the field of Ubiquitous Computing". She collaborates a lot with industrial partners and was awarded a Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award. She also received a MRC Suffrage and Science Award (2020) for being one of the leading women in 'mathematics and computing.' She is also a Fellow of the ACM; a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the ACM's CHI Academy.