AI on Tap: TU Dublin Researchers at Pint of Science 2025
What does it mean to trust artificial intelligence? Can we reliably detect AI-generated content and can that detection be fooled? These questions take center stage on Monday, May 19th at Chaplin’s Bar (1–2 Hawkins Street, Dublin 2) as part of Pint of Science 2025, the global science festival bringing cutting-edge research to your local pub.
As part of Pint of Science 2025, TU Dublin is proud to present seven engaging talks across three days, exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming the way we live, work, and think. Whether you’re an AI skeptic or a tech enthusiast, join us for pints, lively discussions, and science without the jargon.
Monday, May 19 – Chaplin’s, Hawkins St
'Trust Me, I’m AI: A Deep Dive into Trust, Creativity, and Deception'
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Liz Darnell (PhD Researcher, TU Dublin School of Computer Science)
Trusting AI – AI is dominating the news. It's all we can talk about, and the EU AI Act is attempting to keep society and humans at the forefront. So, what does it mean to trust? How do we trust AI and should we? - Bryan Duggan (Lecturer, TU Dublin)
I.am.DANI - Dynamic Artificial Non-Intelligence: Computer Generated Art Made By Humans – I.am.DANI is an art-making, poetry-writing, AI created for the 40th birthday of MSX. DANI, a chatbot from 1986, written in MSX BASIC by Sean Davidson, has come back to life as I.am.DANI creating art and writing poetry. What differentiates the art created by I.am.DANI from AI generated art, is that the art in I.am.DANI is created by teams of students from TU Dublin Computer Science and Game Design. I.am.DANI creates visuals and writes poems live in response to sound, movement in VR or step sequencer MIDI controller (The Arturia Beatstep) that allows the performer to control all aspects of I.am.DANI in real time. -
Shushanta Pudasaini (PhD Researcher, TU Dublin)
AI-Generated Text Detection – There is a race going on between developing sophisticated Large Language Models(LLMs) which can generate text mimicking human writing and developing detection tools such as Originality.ai, Turnitin, and GPTZero, which can detect such generated text. This talk discusses who is winning and who is losing the race. I provide insight into state of the art techniques for AI-generated text detection and as a bonus also provides a few techniques to fool existing AI detectors.
Tuesday, May 20 – Two Venues - Chaplin’s, Hawkins St
'Amazing Drones, Code Clones, and Alarm Tones'
- Houda Briwa (PhD Candidate, TU Dublin)
The Anatomy of Human Error in Process control room operations – They missed alarms and broke the procedure. Is it their fault? What if, instead of blaming operators, we used AI to reveal how context shapes their perception, decisions, and unintended actions?
The Storyteller, Grand Canal St Lower
'AI in Society: Gender, Literacy & the Future of Climate Policy'
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Taha Yasseri (Workday Professor of Technology and Society at TCD & TU Dublin)
The Human in the Machine: Myths, Realities, and the Future of AI – AI often seems to have a gender—why is that? This talk explores how we humanize machines, why AI assistants are often female, and how technology can reinforce biases. How can we build a more fair AI future? -
Dympna O'Sullivan (Lead, Digital Futures Research Hub, TU Dublin)
Age-Friendly AI: Ireland's National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative – AI presents opportunities and challenges for older adults, but many feel marginalised by the pace of technological change. This initiative aims to equip older adults with the knowledge to engage with AI technology confidently.
Wednesday, May 21 – Chaplin’s, Hawkins St
'NeuroFrontiers: AI, Biotech, and the Battle for Better Health'
- John Butler (Lecturer, TU Dublin)
Don’t Get Eaten by the Tiger – The interactive talk will get the audience to act as neurons in a brain and nodes in an artificial neural network to experience how neuroscience experiments on detecting motion, like a Tiger, and maths have inspired machine learning algorithms.
Pint of Science runs from May 19–21 in venues across Dublin. TU Dublin researchers will also feature in talks on AI in industrial safety, age-inclusive tech, gender bias in AI, and brain-inspired neural networks. All events are free and open to the public.