Stephen Cave
Scholar

Stephen Cave

Google Scholar ID: DMKh9NQAAAAJ
University of Cambridge
philosophy of technologyethics of AIphilosophy of death
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,395
 
H-index
22
 
i10-index
28
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
22
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 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