1982, BA in Physics, Oxford; 1986, PhD in Computer Science, Stanford. Since 1986, Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Fellow, present or former: AAAS; ACM; AAAI; Chaires Blaise Pascal. Research interests: all areas of artificial intelligence; nuclear treaty verification; intensive care medicine; long-term future of human and machine intelligence.
An emerging arms race between major powers in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems is attracting a great deal of attention. Negotiations on a potential treaty to ban such weapons...
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What is artificial general intelligence and what will it mean if we ever get to develop it? What are the biggest risks of AI for our society? Can we control the way it affects our everyda...
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Catch up with the debate on automated weapons and killer machines in the session What If Robots Go to War. It'll be livestreamed from Davos at 15.00 on Thursday 21 January 2016.
