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Category Archives: Ethics
ALTAI – A new assessment tool from the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (HLEG)
New Book: Transparency for Robots and Autonomous Systems
Battle of Ideas 2019 – Can you build a human?
I was delighted to be part of the panel for 'From Robots to AI: Can You Build a Human?' at the Barbican Centre in London a couple of weeks ago. Chaired by Timandra Harkness, along with … Continue Reading ››
AmonI UPDATE
Today I spent a couple of hours in hackathon mode with fellow members of the AmonI (Artificial Models of Natural Intelligence) research group at Bath . We decided it was time to bring the AmonI web pages up to date, so that the web site properly reflects our previous and current … Continue Reading ››
Bath TEDx – Will robots be our new best friends?
I'm looking forward to speaking at this TEDx event at the end of this month. The speaker lineup is diverse, and I'm sure we will all contribute in different ways to 'Light Up the Future' - the theme of these TEDx talks. I'll be speaking about how AI and robotics, in … Continue Reading ››
Why AI may fail to help us with solutions to our problems

Robot Ethics – Engaging with the Public
This is a quick update. I'll put a proper page together when I have some more time. I've been doing quite a lot over the last few months to engage with non academics.
Here is my TEDx Frome in January at The Merlin Theatre, Frome
Here is a … Continue Reading ››
Robot Encounter and Transparency
Over the last year or so, one of my main research interests has been machine transparency. We've been using the R5 Robot in various 'robot encounter' experiments, both online using video recordings and in a live environment. We've shown that people do not naturally form good mental models of robots on first encounter. They … Continue Reading ››
Article in The Conversation – Robot Butlers
How to design trustworthy robot butlers that we won’t want to treat like humans
Today I had this article published … Continue Reading ››