Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

Adventures in Consciousness Season

Book Tickets

Thursday 17 October

Lecture

Venue

H B Allen Centre, Keble College, 25 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN

Tickets

FREE, booking is required

Performances

5pm – 6.30pm

The Institute for Ethics in AI is delighted to welcome Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, Principal Research Scientist, Google DeepMind to present at its October Colloquium. The theme of his talk will be "Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness" with more details coming soon.

The Institute for Ethics in AI will bring together world-leading philosophers and other experts in the humanities with the technical developers and users of AI in academia, business and government. The ethics and governance of AI is an exceptionally vibrant area of research at Oxford and the Institute is an opportunity to take a bold leap forward from this platform.

Every day brings more examples of the ethical challenges posed by AI; from face recognition to voter profiling, brain machine interfaces to weaponised drones, and the ongoing discourse about how AI will impact employment on a global scale. This is urgent and important work that we intend to promote internationally as well as embedding in our own research and teaching here at Oxford.

Plan your visit

Address

H B Allen Centre, Keble College, 25 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN

Speakers

Professor Murray Shanahan

Principal Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London.

Professor Murray Shanahan is a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind and Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London. Educated at Imperial College (BSc(Eng) computer science, 1984) and Cambridge University (King’s College; PhD computer science, 1988), he became a full professor at Imperial in 2006, and joined DeepMind in 2017. His publications span artificial intelligence, machine learning, logic, dynamical systems, computational neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. Professor Shanahan is active in public engagement, and was scientific advisor on the film Ex Machina. He has written several books, including “Embodiment and the Inner Life” (2010) and “The Technological Singularity” (2015)