A February 26, 2025 Sense about Science announcement highlights one of their online events being held during British Science Week March 7 – 16, 2025 (more about the week further on),

Join us for an exciting Science Council Lunch & Learn session on Thursday 13 March [2025] where Sense about Science will discuss how Responsible Handover can help scientists use AI and data science tools safely and effectively.

Emerging technologies such as AI are changing how we do research, whether that be conducting literature reviews, planning experiments, or automating routine tasks. Without better training for researchers, especially those without the technological expertise to understand how tools such as AI work, there is a real risk of these tools being introduced into the lab without researchers being ready. Our webinar will illustrate the questions to ask of these tools before introducing them into research and how the Responsible Handover framework can be turned into clear guidance that scientists can follow across all disciplines.

This webinar is part of British Science Week, a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths. It provides a platform to stimulate and support teachers, STEM professionals, science communicators and the public to produce and participate in science and technology-based events and activities. We hope you can join us.

I found more details on the Responsible Handover of AI webinar by Sense about Science,

Thu 13 Mar 2025 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM GMT Online, Zoom

Responsible Handover makes sure we ask and answer the necessary questions to implement AI and data science tools safely and effectively

In this session, Sense about Science will explain how they are supporting AI developers, research funders, scientists, and others involved in AI tool development. Their aim is to ensure tools are funded and used safely and effectively by implementing the Responsible Handover framework.

AI and data science tools are emerging faster than quality assurance and implementation knowledge. As a result, we actually risk stifling their scientific capabilities. In some cases AI tools are being implemented inappropriately and inadvertently causing harm. In others, opportunities for positive impacts are missed when tools are omitted due to concerns about assurances and whether the right questions have been asked.

As a tool is developed, there are key knowledge transfer or handover points where vital information about its likely strengths and weaknesses in different contexts should be discussed. But these conversations are prone to slip through the cracks. This is likely to occur when the number of users of a tool grows or there is a big difference in technical expertise between tool adopter and tool proposer.

This results in a gap between high-level ethical principles and technical domain specific guidance. This can be overcome with a general, practical governance framework.

Chair: Prof Della Freeth, Chief Executive of the Science Council

Speaker: Dr Sameh ElBadry, Project Officer, Sense About Science

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Here’s the page where you sign up for the Responsible Handover of AI webinar.

British Science Week March 7 – 16, 2025 can be found here.