A Bright New World: the impact of Artificial Intelligence

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About the experts

Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a former secretary-general of NATO and advocates a world wide treaty against the use of fully autonomous weapon systems.

Joanna Bryson researches autonomy and ethics in robotics and the cooperation between humans and artificial intelligence at the University of Bath en Princeton University.

John Markoff is researcher at Stanford University, after a carreer of 40 years as a journalist covering the Sillicon Valley. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting at the New York Times. In 2015 he wrote Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots.

Kate Devlin is senior lecturer at King’s College in London. She works in the fields of human computer interaction and artificial intelligence. Currently she is focusing on cognition, sex, gender and sexuality and how these might be incorporated into cognitive systems such as sexual companion robots. She wrote Turned On: Science, Sex & Robots, to be published next month.

Kenneth Payne is also senior lecturer at King’s College in Londen. expert in the field of militaire applications of AI. He wrote Strategy, Evolution, and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence. He resarches the basics of strategic behaviour and the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of warfare.

Joanna Holbrook is professor bioinformetics at the University of Southampton. She uses algorithms to discover new medicins. She also works at the company Benevolent AI.

Stuart Russell is a professor in computer science at Berkeley University in California. He wrote the renowned bookArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, used in over 1300 universities in 118 countries. Russell refers to the work as “the most stolen pdf in the world.”