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Christopher Summerfield

Christopher Summerfield
Christopher Summerfield has one foot in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience—studying the brains of humans, as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford—and the other in AI research, helping build intelligent systems as a Staff Research Scientist at the pioneering Google DeepMind. He has won several awards, including the prestigious Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award in 2015. He is regularly invited to give keynote talks across the world. Christopher has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and book chapters and his academic book, Natural General Intelligence: How Understanding the Brain Can Help Us Build AI, was widely acclaimed. These Strange New Minds is his first book for a general readership.


What the Rise of AI-Powered Weapons Reveals About the State of Modern Warfare

Christopher Summerfield on the Practical and Ethical Ramifications of Surrendering Human Military Knowledge to Machines
March 12, 2025  By Christopher Summerfield
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