Stephen Cave
Senior Research Fellow
University of Cambridge
Stefan Klein
Freelance
Huw Price
Professor of Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Murray Shanahan
Professor of Cognitive Robotics
Imperial College London / DeepMind
Beth Singler
Research Associate, Faraday Institute
University of Cambridge
Karina Vold
Philosopher of Mind
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Henry Shevlin
Research Associate
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Margaret Boden
Research Professor
University of Sussex
Kanta Dihal
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
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Ethics
Once and future sins
In 2115, when our descendants look back at our society, what will they condemn as our greatest moral failing?
Stephen Cave & Stefan Klein
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Cognition and intelligence
The free-will scale
Like IQ or EQ, there should be FQ: a freedom quotient to show how much free will we have – and how to get more
Stephen Cave
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Conscious exotica
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?
Murray Shanahan
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene
Huw Price
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Cognition and intelligence
Intelligence: a history
Intelligence has always been used as fig-leaf to justify domination and destruction. No wonder we fear super-smart robots
Stephen Cave
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Computing and artificial intelligence
fAIth
The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
Beth Singler
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Information and communication
Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you?
Karina Vold
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay
Beth Singler
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Ethics
Brutality is common in video games, but not sexual violence. Why?
Henry Shevlin
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Automation and robotics
Robot says: Whatever
What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires
Margaret Boden
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Stories and literature
Can we understand other minds? Novels and stories say: no
Kanta Dihal