Authored 'Immortality' (Crown/Penguin Random House, 2012), named New Scientist Book of the Year and translated into many languages
Co-authored 'Should You Choose to Live Forever?' with John Martin Fischer (Routledge, 2023)
Co-edited 'AI Narratives' (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Co-edited 'Imagining AI' (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Co-edited 'Feminist AI' (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Published influential papers including 'The Whiteness of AI' (2020), 'Race and AI: the Diversity Dilemma' (2021), 'Let’s talk about digital death' (2020), etc.
Upcoming 2025 publications include 'Challenges of responsible AI in practice' and 'Technogenesis as White Mythology'
Background
Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), University of Cambridge
Co-Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity, University of Cambridge
Research focuses on the philosophy and ethics of technology, particularly the ethics of AI/robotics and the ethics of life-extension and the philosophy of (im)mortality
Served nearly a decade as a policy advisor and diplomat at the British Foreign Office before returning to academia and writing
His work has been featured in hundreds of global media outlets; writes for the Financial Times, Guardian, New York Times, etc.
Regularly appears on BBC, NPR, and other broadcast media