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- Programme Director
- Programme Director for Trust and Society at the CFI
- Programme Director, AI
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Adrian Weller is Programme Director for Trust and Society at the CFI. He is also a Principal Research Fellow in Machine Learning at Cambridge, and Programme Director for AI at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for data science and AI, where he is a Turing Fellow leading work on safe, ethical and trustworthy AI.
His interests span AI, its commercial applications, and helping to ensure beneficial outcomes for society. He serves on several boards including the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. He is co-director of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) programme on Human-centric Machine Learning, a member of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on the Ethics of AI and a member of the IEEE Standards Working Group on Explainable AI.
Previously, Adrian held senior roles in finance.
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- Research Associate
- Research Programmes Coordinator and Research Fellow at CFI
Aisha is a Research Programmes Coordinator and Research Fellow at CFI. She is part of the Desirable Digitisation group, and her research is concerned with understanding the interaction of the digital systems and spaces we live within, and our core values. Aisha has always taken an interdisciplinary approach, focussed on human experience and quality of life in reaction to technology, especially the power structures that they are part of. She gained her MPhil in International Relations and Politics at Cambridge and for her Ph.D. is the LKY Scholar at Fitzwilliam College and studies social connection in the digital ‘smart' city.
Aisha is passionate about outreach and widening participation, as she has created educational resources for students to gain insight into the areas of wellbeing and social media and expand critical thinking around digital structures.
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- Associate
- Fellow
- Professor of Robot Ethics at the University
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Alan Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of York. He received his PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Hull in 1984, then co-founded and led APD Communications Ltd until taking-up appointment at UWE, Bristol in 1992. Alan co-founded the Bristol Robotics Laboratory where his research is focussed on cognitive robotics; he is especially interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture.
Alan is an advocate for robot ethics; he was a member of the British Standards Institute working group that drafted BS 8611: Guide to the Ethical Design of Robots and Robotic Systems, and he currently chairs the General Principles committee of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. Alan has published over 200 works, including ‘Robotics: A Very Short Introduction' (Oxford University Press, 2012); he lectures widely on robotics, presenting to both academic and public audiences, and blogs at http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/
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- Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford
Alexander Tamas Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford
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Alexandrine is an incoming Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at Cambridge. Alexandrine specializes in affective computing, augmented reality and digital labour, with her Ph.D. project centring on the digital economy in Africa. She was an Education Program Manager at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute and is the author of the Short Anthropological Guide for Ethical AI.
Previously, Alexandrine was a youth fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Study and part of the Foundation for Genocide Education. Alexandrine holds a BA in History and Anthropology from McGill University.
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- Director of the Re:Enlightenment Project His
- Professor of English and American Literature at New York University
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- Associate Fellow ( Research Fellow from Oct 2019 to Dec 2021, Senior Research Fellow from Jan - Aug 2021 )
- Associate Fellow Student Advisor ( MSt )
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Ali Boyle specialises in the philosophy of cognitive science, focusing on the philosophy of comparative cognition. She received her BA, MPhil and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and held a Research Fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge before joining CFI. Until December 2021, she held a joint position at CFI and the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn.
Her work looks at areas of comparative cognition in which scientists disagree sharply about nonhuman minds, despite having access to the same evidence. In recent work, she has written about self-recognition, self-awareness and mindreading in nonhuman animals, as well as more general methodological issues in animal cognition research. Her current work focuses on episodic memory, focusing on its role in cognition, and its realisation in animals and artificial agents. She is also a Project Lead on the Atlas of Intelligences project, which aims to develop new resources making cross-disciplinary research on the variety of minds more accessible.
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- External Advisor
- Professor
- Professor of Psychology
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Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her BA from McGill University and her PhD. from Oxford University.
She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of children's learning and development and was the first to argue that children's minds could help us understand deep philosophical questions. She is a columnist (every other week) for The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of over 100 journal articles and several books including "Words, thoughts and theories" (coauthored with Andrew Meltzoff), MIT Press, 1997, and the bestselling and critically acclaimed popular books "The Scientist in the Crib"(coauthored with Andrew Meltzoff and Patricia Kuhl) William Morrow, 1999, and "The Philosophical Baby; What children's minds tell us about love, truth and the meaning of life" Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009.
She has also written widely about cognitive science and psychology for Science, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, New Scientist and Slate, among others. And she has frequently appeared on TV and radio including "The Charlie Rose Show" and "The Colbert Report".
Professor Gopnik is an external advisor to the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
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Amaia is an MPhil Digital Humanities student at the University of Cambridge and a Student Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
Her thesis, supervised by Dr Eleanor Drage, examines AI narratives and how speculative fiction and media shape our understanding of individual and collective experiences. She is interested in the construction and re-embodiment of personhood, gender and sex in the digital age, and how these states intersect with developments in reproductive technologies. Her academic focus also concerns the myths that uphold AI systems, their imagined users, and how they inform exclusionary or inclusive design processes.
Additionally, she is a Researcher on the Wikimedia Future Audiences Project at Cambridge ThinkLab.
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- Research Exercise Leader, 2016 - 2019
- Research Project Leader, 2016 - 2019
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Andrew Snyder-Beattie was the Director of Research at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), University of Oxford, and served as the Horizon Scanning Project Leader at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He formerly led a research collaboration between the Oxford Martin School and Amlin plc, overseeing a team of four researchers. Before serving as director of research, Andrew was a project manager at FHI, responsible for fundraising, recruitment, and outreach. While at FHI, he raised over $3.5m in research funding, advised governments and foreign ministries on artificial intelligence policy, and wrote editorials for the Guardian, Ars Technica, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which in total have received over 750,000 readers. He holds a master's degree in biomathematics.
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- Project Leader, 2016 - March 2020
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Anna Alexandrova is a philosopher of science with special focus in social sciences. She is interested in how social scientists move between theoretical and applied knowledge, what value judgments they make and how this should affect our confidence in their policy recommendations. Her recent work concentrates on measurement of socially valuable outcomes such as well-being and quality of life across different projects in social and medical sciences. Her writings can be found on her webpage.
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- Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre
- Research Fellow ( LCFI / Bonn ) Student Advisor ( MSt )
- Research Fellow ( LCFI / University of Bonn ) Student Advisor ( MSt )
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Apolline Taillandier is a postdoctoral research associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and POLIS at the University of Cambridge, and the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn. Apolline studied political theory at Sciences Po in Paris before joining the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, where she wrote her dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Jenny Andersson. During her PhD, she studied the history of contemporary transhumanism as articulating a set of projects about liberalism's future. She was a Fulbright student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley Sociology Department in 2018 and a Cambridge Sciences Po visiting student in POLIS in 2019.
In her postdoctoral research, she investigates the historical role of feminist thought and activism in the critique of computer technology and the remaking of artificial intelligence as a scientific project from the 1980s onwards. In the context of rising concerns about the discriminatory and stratifying effects of AI, she studies the transnational circulation of ethics and gender justice norms and their reinterpretation and appropriation by scientists and industry actors, focusing on European and U.S. American sites of technical AI research.
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- Research Assistant ( Imperial ), 2019 - 2020
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Benjamin worked as a Research Assistant developing the Animal AI-Olympics (part of the Biological to Artificial Intelligence Project), a competition to benchmark state of the art AI and especially deep RL algorithms. This project is based on Unity and its machine learning library ml-agents, using C#, python and tensorflow among others. He is now a research engineer at DeepMind.
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- Fellow
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Beryl Pong is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Her current project, 'Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking,' examines how the aesthetic dimensions of unmanned aerial technologies impact the politics of their use in areas such as war, security, and humanitarianism. Her fellowship seeks to understand how drones' relationships to AI, sensors, and simulation produce new ways of interpreting and experiencing the world. Her transdisciplinary research team spans researchers in English, Politics, Digital Media, and Computer Science, as well as collaborators from the cultural, heritage, arts, and non-profit sectors. At Cambridge, she also holds affiliated positions with the Faculty of English and with Trinity College.
Beryl's research interests span sound and visual culture; the history and philosophy of science and technology; war; and modern and contemporary art and literature. Her publications include British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the Duration (Oxford University Press, 2020); the co-edited volume Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming); special issues on 'The Art of Drone Warfare' (Journal of War and Culture Studies, 2022) and 'Wartime' (Modernism/modernity, 2020); and articles in journals such as PMLA, Journal of Modern Literature, and Literature & History.
She received her BA Honours from Queen's University in Canada, her MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and her PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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Bianca is a PhD student at the Cambridge Computer Lab, supervised by Dr Jatinder Singh and Prof Alan Blackwell, and a student fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
Her research investigates algorithmic system transparency for users, with a focus on visualisation and interface design. Bianca's research aims at better aligning algorithmic systems with users' information needs, particularly in the field of education and healthcare. Prior to her PhD, Bianca was the CEO of an edTech startup in France for three years.
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Bill Marino is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Cambridge and a Student Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
In his PhD work, which focuses on the societal and security risks of generative AI, Bill is advised by Nic Lane and Ross Anderson and a member of both the Cambridge ML Systems Lab (CaMLSys) and the Security Group.
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- Head of UK Policy and Partnerships at OpenAI
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Brittany Smith is the Head of UK Policy and Partnerships at OpenAI.
Brittany has held roles working at the intersection of AI and equity in industry, civil society, and philanthropy. Most recently, she was a Program Officer on AI2050, a philanthropic initiative within Schmidt Futures designed to support multi-disciplinary research on beneficial AI. Prior to joining Schmidt Futures, Brittany was the Policy Director at Data & Society Research Institute, a nonprofit research institute challenging the power and purpose of technology in society. She also worked at Alphabet in a range of policy and government affairs roles in London and San Francisco. At DeepMind, she helped build the company's first policy and ethics research team, and subsequently led partnerships and public engagement on a range of AI policy issues. She also created and led new programs on human rights and racial justice.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Partnership on AI, and graduated from Northwestern University and the London School of Economics.
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Cassie is an Associate Fellow here at CFI, and is focussed on the role of design in the future of intelligence.
Alongside this, Cassie is Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at The National Lottery Community Fund where she's responsible for Innovation, Policy and Practice, and is also Co-founder of the Point People. She has a Policy Fellowship at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL, is the founder of Stewarding Loss and Co-founder of Funder Ecosystems.
An experienced strategic designer, Cassie is a Nesta Creative Pioneer, sits on the Board of Organise HQ, and teaches on the MSc in Ecological Design and the Ecologies + Technologies programme at Schumacher College. She is on the Faculty of States of Change, and is one of the International Futures Forum Clan.
Cassie's career hasn't taken a traditional linear route. She prefers to live in more liminal spaces, and she's taken on roles and projects that span the whole ecosystem of social change. From these places her passion is centred on connecting new thinking and practice, weaving together networks and growing relationships, always with the goal of justice - a more equitable and regenerative society. She's spent time as Strategic Design Director at Doteveryone, a responsible technology think tank, as well as working directly with government departments (including DCMS and the Cabinet Office) and social businesses such as the Co-op. Cassie sees narrative and culture as an integral part of social change and she's produced programmes of work that have shown at places like the Barbican, Somerset House and the Royal Festival hall.
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- Research Fellow ( LCFI / University of Bonn ), 2019 - July 2020
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Catherine Stinson works at the intersection of Philosophy of Science, Applied Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Psychiatry. Current projects include teaching Ethics of AI, and researching algorithmic bias, how workplace diversity impacts ethical outcomes, why we can safely ignore singularity arguments, and how philosophical work on causation and kinds ought to inform big data projects in computational psychiatry. In previous positions, Stinson wrote policy papers and popular pieces about how to deal with the threats to privacy and consent raised by AI's moves into healthcare, and worked on research projects in Virtual Reality, Machine Learning, and Robotics. In 2019 Stinson was included in a list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.
In July 2020 Stinson became an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computing at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
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- Visiting Fellow, September 2019 - August 2020
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Clifford Siskin is the Henry W. and Alfred A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature at New York University and the Director of The Re:Enlightenment Project His subject is the history of knowledge, with a current focus on the interrelations of forms of knowledge and forms of computation. Links between past and present inform all of his work, from his sequencing of the genres of subjectivity (The Historicity of Romantic Discourse, OUP) to his revealing the footings for the modern disciplines (The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain 1700-1830, Hopkins). With William Warner in This Is Enlightenment (Chicago), he devised the "history of mediation" as a conceptual tool for answering the question Kant made famous. His most recent book reveals how "system" became the central genre of Enlightenment and thus our primary form of knowing and a thing we love to blame (SYSTEM: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge, MIT). Professor Siskin is also co-editor, with Anne Mellor, of the Palgrave-Macmillan monograph series in "Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print." He has been the George Delacorte Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, the A. C. Bradley Chair at the University of Glasgow, the Waynflete Lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford, Visiting Leverhulme Professor at Cambridge University, and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
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Daniel Williams (PhD, Cambridge, 2018; MPhil, Cambridge, 2015) specialises in the philosophy of psychology and social science. He is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. His current research advances the idea that many putative examples of human irrationality are socially strategic, enabling individuals to achieve social goals that come into conflict with epistemic goals such as truth and impartiality. He is currently working on a book in which he argues that this simple idea illuminates a large and varied body of psychological phenomena, including self-deception, confabulation, social conformity, confirmation bias, motivated cognition, ideological and religious beliefs, and more. In addition, he also works in the philosophy of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, with a special interest in the promises, pitfalls, and implications of probabilistic models of cognition. You can find out more about his research and see a list of his publications here: www.danwilliamsphilosophy.com.
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- Associate Fellow March 2022 - June 2023
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Danaja is working as a research associate on the RECOG-AI project, which is part of the Kinds of Intelligence programme. As part of this project, she will be developing a robust evaluation framework for AI systems in order to properly understand their capabilities. Danaja recently completed studying for a PhD in Developmental Psychology/Neuroscience from the Donders Institute in The Netherlands. In her doctoral work, which was embedded in a theoretical framework of predictive processing, Danaja investigated how generative models are learned and developed, and how information about statistical regularities is represented in these models. She completed a M.Sc. in Language, Mind and Embodied Cognition at the University of Edinburgh and a B.Sc. in Psychology at the University of Ljubljana.
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- Professor
- Visiting Fellow, June 2019
A recording of Professor Dennett's lecture is available here.
Professor Dennett visited LCFI in June 2019, during his visit he gave the annual Margaret Boden Lecture.
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- Associate
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- Project Assistant Professor at the Cyber Civilizations Research Center
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Danit Gal is a Project Assistant Professor at the Cyber Civilizations Research Center at the Keio University Global Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan. She is interested in global strategic technology planning to maximize shared social benefit. Danit chairs the IEEE P7009 standard on the Fail-Safe Design of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Systems, and is an active member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. She is also an affiliate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Prior to joining Keio, Danit was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and International Strategic Advisor to the iCenter at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Among her current projects is an ongoing study of the unanticipated consequences of AI under the Association of Pacific Rim Universities - Google research project 'AI for Everyone: Building Trust in and Benefiting from the Technology'.
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- Project Leader, 2016 - March 2020
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- Founder and CEO, DeepMind
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- Associate Director ( Development ) Senior Research Fellow
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- Associate
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- Research Fellow at the Centre for Science
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Dr Audrey Borowski is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Thought in Bonn and an Associate Member of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence in Cambridge. She was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy as well as a research associate at the University of Oxford. She completed her doctorate (D.Phil) in the History of Ideas at the University of Oxford.
Audrey's research background lies at the intersection of philosophy, history and science and in the last few years she started working more closely on the philosophical history and philosophy of computing and AI. Audrey works on various projects pertaining to the philosophy of algorithms, the philosopher Hans Blumenberg, Myth and AI, as well as the analog and the digital. Her main project is entitled Philosophers of the Digital Age: A Philosophical History of Computing and AI from Leibniz to the Present.
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- Associate
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- Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College
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Dr Beth Singler is the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where she is exploring the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of AI. As an associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence she is collaborating on the AI Narratives and Global AI Narratives projects, as well as co-organising a series of Faith and AI workshops as a part of the AI: Trust and Society programme.
She has also produced a series of short films on the questions raised by AI, and the first, Pain in the Machine, won the AHRC Best Research Film of the Year Award in 2017. Beth has appeared on Radio4's Today, Sunday and Start the Week, spoken at the Hay Festival as one of the ‘Hay 30', the 30 best speakers to watch, as well as speaking at New Scientist Live, Edinburgh Science Festival, the Science Museum, Cheltenham Science Festival, and Ars Electronica. She was also one of the Evening Standard's Progress 1000, a list of the most influential people, in both 2017 and 2018.
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- Assistant Professor
- Director of MPhil Programme
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Claire is Assistant Professor and Course Leader for the Centre's MPhil in the Ethics of AI, Data and Algorithms. Prior to taking up this position, she was a Research Fellow on the Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge project at the Australian National University. Her first post-doc position was at the Polonsky Academy of Advanced Study at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, after having received her PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2014.
Her main areas of research are ethics, both normative and applied, and the philosophy of technology. Her approach to AI ethics is two-fold: to use the questions, puzzles and problems emerging technology raises to make first-order, foundational contributions to normative theory and to reflect this philosophical progress back to make concrete suggestions for the design and deployment of more ethical technological systems in both policy and industry settings.
She also has a strong research history in exploring those actions that lie between what is impermissible and what is required, with a focus on the supererogatory. Supererogatory actions are those that go above and beyond the call of duty. In her work on supererogation, she examines both the conditions that an act must meet to be counted as supererogatory as well as the value of including this class of normative action in our ethical theories. Often overlooked in the traditional ethical discussions of liars, murderers, promise-breakers and thieves, Claire's work focuses on the wonderfully positive side of our moral lives and encourage us all to take more seriously those gift-givers, blood-donors, saints and heroes who similarly populate our moral world.
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- Research Associate
- Research Associate at the Leverhulme Center
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Dr. Amy Gaeta is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. She uses feminist theory and critical disability studies to analyze the emotional, aesthetic, and political dimensions of human-tech relations, especially those concerning consumer drones. Gaeta's research is deeply concerned with how semi-autonomous technologies impact the formation of subjecthood and ideas of humanness. Her work has appeared in First Monday, the Journal of Visual Culture, N+1, Culture, Theory, & Critique, and more.
Gaeta is part of the UKRI funded project Droned Life organized by the Center for Drones and Culture at the CFI. Prior to joining the project, Gaeta was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her PhD in English and Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well.
She is strongly committed to the aims of disability justice, many of which inform her work as a researcher, advocate, and a poet. She has contributed to numerous pedagogical, community-based, and artistic projects that aim to promote the strengthening of disability culture and anti-ableism.
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- Assistant Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
- Visiting Fellow, March 2020
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Dr. Charlene Chu is an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and an Affiliate Scientist at KITE Toronto Rehab at the University Health Network. She is also cross-appointment (status only) with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work's Institute for Life Course & Aging at the University of Toronto. As a Registered Nurse with 12 years of experience working with older adults across the health spectrum, Dr. Chu's primary area of research is in designing interventions that support the mobility and daily function of older adults in post-acute care settings (e.g. long-term care, rehabilitation, community).
As a steering committee member of The Consortium of Professional Nursing Practice in LTC and the Worldwide Elements To Harmonize Research In long-term care liVing Environments (WE-THRIVE) to support the use of common data elements in long-term care and support person-centred care globally. Notably, Dr. Chu has authored and co-authored 36 peer-reviewed full manuscripts focused on interventions for older adults, advancing gerontological nursing practice, or developing international clinical guidelines to support
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Dr. Daniel White is a Research Affiliate in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD in anthropology from Rice University and holds MA degrees in Japanese literature and Asia-Pacific Studies. His research documents how different cultural imaginaries of emotional wellbeing, largely from Japan, are shaping diverse futures for artificial emotional intelligence. He currently co-organizes an ethnographic research project called Model Emotion, in which he works across disciplines with anthropologists, psychologists, computer scientists and robotics engineers to trace and critique how theoretical models of emotion are built into machines with the capacity to evoke, read or even in a philosophical sense ‘have' emotion in ways that foster care and wellbeing. He increasingly researches how Buddhist and other contemplative approaches to emotion can diversify emotional models applied to artificial intelligence. His publications, podcasts and other projects can be found at www.modelemotion.org.
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- IBM Fellow, IBM AI Ethics Global Leader / View Profile
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- Associate Fellow ( Former Research Assistant, 2019 - September 2020 )
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- Research Grants Coordinator
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- Associate Director ( Education ) Programme Co - Director, Kinds of Intelligence
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- Chairman, CFI Strategy Group
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- Co - Founder of the Cambridge Centre
Jaan Tallinn
Founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa, Co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute
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- Senior Research Fellow, 2018 - 2021
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- Visiting Fellow, November 2019
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- Programme Co - Director, Kinds of Intelligence Senior Research Fellow
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- Associate Fellow Research Fellow, June 2019 - April 2021
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- Co - Leader Research Fellow
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- Associate Fellow ( Former Research Fellow, 2017 - 2020 )
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- University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University
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- Postgraduate Co - Ordinator
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- Co - Lead ( Imperial ), 2016 - 2019
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- Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex
Martin Rees
Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics; past President of the Royal Society; former Master, Fellow of Trinity College
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- Research Fellow, 2016 - March 2021
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- Co - Leader Senior Research Fellow
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- Student Fellow, 2019 - 2020
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- Research Fellow at the Future of Life Institute, University of Oxford, 2016 - 2019
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- Spoke Co - Leader ( Imperial )
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- Visiting Fellow, March 2020
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- Research Fellow, April 2019 - August 2020
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- Co - Principle Investigator, "Inferring Human Preferences" Project, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford
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- Institute Manager ( ITH )
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- Spoke Co - Leader ( Imperial )
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- Research Fellow ( Oxford )
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- Programme Director and Senior Research Fellow, October 2018 - September 2019
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- Postdoctoral Researcher ( Imperial ), 2016 - Summer 2019
As Professor Stephen Hawking said at the Centre's launch, AI is "likely to be either the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity, so there's huge value in getting it right." Our research is dedicated to ensuring AI is a force for good and it's structured in a series of research programmes that cover a wide range of projects. Our work explores vital questions about the impact of AI in the near, mid- and long-term, from algorithmic transparency and the nature of intelligence to automated warfare, consciousness, social AI, AI and creativity, AI-amplified disccrimination and injustice, global and pluriversal design, and the implications of AI for democracy, geopolitics, and the natural environment.
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- Project Leader, 2016 - March 2020
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- Spoke Leader ( Berkeley )
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, 2017 - 2020
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- Research Project Leader, 2016 - August 2019
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- Visiting Scholar Oct - Dec 2023
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- Visiting Fellow, July - August 2019
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- Deputy Academic Director, 2016 - March 2021