Christopher Summerfield is appointed Research Director at the UK AI Safety Institute

Christopher Summerfield, Fellow by special election at Wadham College and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience has been appointed Research Director at the UK Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute.

The Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) was established after the UK hosted the world's first major AI safety summit in November 2022. Its remit is to research and advance the world’s knowledge of AI safety. The AISI will examine, evaluate, and test new types of AI and the risks associated with them, for example with regard to potential spread of misinformation, or impact on mental health. It will conduct fundamental and impartial research on how to keep people safe in the face of fast and unpredictable progress in AI. The aim is that this model will be replicated and the Institute will make its work available to the world, enabling an effective global response to the opportunities and risks of advanced AI.

Professor Summerfield's book, Natural General Intelligence: How understanding the brain can help us build AI was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. Find out more about his research here.