Huw Price retired in 2020 after nine years as Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence from its launch in 2016 until October 2021, and he remains Chair of the CFI Strategy Group. He was also co-founder, with Martin Rees and Jaan Tallinn, of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. In January 2019 he joined the inaugural Board of the new Ada Lovelace Institute. Before moving to Cambridge in 2011 he was ARC Federation Fellow and Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, where he was founding Director of the Centre for Time.
Editorial to “Decision theory and the future of AI” Synthese 198, 6413–6414 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03316-z
Berggruen China Center Interview with Professor Huw Price on Technology and the Future of Humanity (27 February 2019) A video recording of an interview with Huw Price (Academic Director) by the Berggruen Institute’s China Center at an event in Beijing, China. Download Video Recording
Living with AI, Research Horizons (2018) Powerful AI needs to be reliably aligned with human values. Does this mean that AI will eventually have to police those values? Huw Price and Karina Vold consider the trade-off between safety and autonomy in the era of superintelligence. Download Popular Journal article
Mapping Intelligence: Requirements and Possibilities (2018) In: Müller V. (eds) Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence 2017. PT-AI 2017. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 44. Springer, Cham New types of artificial intelligence (AI), from cognitive assistants to social robots, are challenging meaningful comparison with other kinds of intelligence. How can such […]
Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene, Aeon (2016) Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems. It is difficult to predict when this might happen, but most artificial intelligence (AI) specialists estimate that it is more likely than not within this century. […]
This project explores the nature and future of AI agency and personhood, and its impact on our human sense of what it means to be a person. This project has four strands: Models of agency By drawing on work about familiar kinds of non-human agents (eg corporations, or nations), we may learn useful lessons about the […]
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