Geoff Keeling

Staff Research Scientist, Google; Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of London

Philosopher working on the ethics and cognitive science of AI. Interests include alignment, manipulation, trust, digital minds, social cognition and human-AI relationships. Some highlights:

• Book on AI welfare out with Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Winnie Street, and written in our capacity as Fellows at the Institute of Philosophy. You can hear us talk about it here, order a print copy here, and read the Open Access version here.
• Paper in Nature, ‘We need a new ethics for a world of AI agents,’ co-authored with Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini and James Evans.
• Article in TIME on AI consciousness featuring me and Jeff Sebo, and New York Times piece in which I was interviewed about Google’s Moral Imagination Program.
• Collaborated with Jonathan Birch’s lab at the London School of Economics on Google’s first empirical study on machine sentience. Feature articles in Scientific American and Futurism.
• Led Google DeepMind report on the ‘Ethics of advanced AI assistants’ with Iason Gabriel and Arianna Manzini. Media coverage in WIRED, the Verge and the Information.

Prior to Google, I was a postdoc at Stanford University under Rob Reich. Before that, I did my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol with Richard Pettigrew and Brad Hooker.

Here is my CV.

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