Welcome to the Archive! Information about Leverhulme CFI’s completed projects from across all of our research programmes.
This project focuses on the collaborations between technologists, policymakers, and other stakeholders needed for the responsible development of AI. There are good prospects for the development of a robust ‘safety and benefits’ culture within the industry. The open letter prepared at Puerto Rico, now signed by a large body of industry and academic research leaders, […]
This research project aims to bring an interdisciplinary approach to the question of regulating autonomous weapons systems. One strong present incentive for development of high-level AI comes from its military potential with respect to autonomous weapons. Concerns about this development have already been raised within the AI community, among lawyers and ethicists, and in informal expert discussions at the UN. In […]
This project involves mapping the landscape of potential AI breakthroughs and their social consequences. The speed and direction of AI development will likely be shaped by hardware and algorithmic breakthroughs, conceptual developments in areas such as neuroscience and statistics, and social changes across political, industrial, and public dimensions. Keeping track of these developments will help to […]
This project examines the challenges that the future of AI poses for democratic politics, including questions of political agency, accountability and representation. The future of AI poses deep challenges for democratic politics and raises urgent questions of political agency, accountability and representation. What kind of politics can control AI? What kind of politics might result […]
This project critically examines conceptions of value in the science of (artificial) intelligence. The recent ‘social turn’ in the philosophy of science emphasises that science does not proceed in an ethical and political vacuum and that its value presuppositions can be both a blessing and a curse. As blessings, they can constrain science in the […]
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 […]
The Value Alignment Project seeks to design methods for preventing AI systems from inadvertently acting in ways inimical to human values. AI systems will operate with increasing autonomy and capability in complex domains in the real world. How can we ensure that they have the right behavioural dispositions – the goals or ‘values’ needed to […]
Exploring how human intelligence, consciousness, and cognition are augmented by the digital technologies we use. What effect is technology having on our intelligence? Socrates argued that it would have a diminishing effect, but recently much philosophical attention has focused on the ways in which technology enhances and extends human cognitive capacities. Even simple technologies, such […]
The recent ‘social turn’ in the philosophy of science emphasises that science does not proceed in an ethical and political vacuum and that its value presuppositions can be both a blessing and a curse. As blessings, they can constrain science in the service of ideals of justice, wellbeing, and equality. As curses, they can hide […]
This project explores the ethics of technologies aimed at augmenting human intelligence. Humans have a long tradition of augmenting biological capacities through artifacts: running shoes improve our physical capacities, binoculars enhance our vision, and calculators boost our mathematical skills. But the technologies we use are rapidly becoming more sophisticated, more personalized, and even more invasive. […]
Research Exercise Leader, 2016 - 2019
Project Leader, 2016 - March 2020
Project Leader, 2016 - March 2020
Founder and Strategy Group Chair
Senior Research Fellow
Associate Fellow (former Research Fellow, 2017 - 2020)
Senior Research Fellow
Associate Fellow
Associate Director (Research Strategy) | Programme Director
Project Leader, 2016 - March 2020
Spoke Lead, Berkeley
