Margaret Boden

Research Professor, University of Sussex

Margaret Boden is research professor of cognitive science at University of Sussex. She is a fellow of the British Academy, and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Her latest book is AI: Its Nature and Future (2016).

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Written by Margaret Boden

A Japanese man in traditional attire holding a grey robotic arm, seated on a wooden porch, next to glass-paned doors and wooden walls.

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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