Geoff Keeling

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

Philosopher working on the ethical and societal impacts of AI. Interests include alignment, manipulation, trust, digital minds, and human-AI relationships. Some highlights:

• Book on AI welfare forthcoming 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, pre-order a print copy here, and read the online 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.
• 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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