Biography
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh is the Programme Director for the AI:FAR research program. Seán was also the founding Executive Director of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), an academic research centre focused on global risks associated with emerging technologies and human activity. Since 2011 he has played a central role in international research on long-term trajectories and impacts associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, project managing the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology from 2011-2014, co-developing the Strategic AI Research Centre (Cambridge-Oxford collaboration) in 2015, and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge-Oxford-Imperial-Berkeley collaboration) in 2015/16.
Seán’s research spans technology policy, catastrophic risk, horizon-scanning and foresight, genomics, bioengineering and artificial intelligence. Prior to Cambridge, he established the FHI-Amlin Collaboration on Systemic Risk, an academic-reinsurance industry partnership on catastrophic risk modelling, as well as several other research programmes at Oxford. He has a PhD in genomics.
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