The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) is an interdisciplinary research centre within the

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that studies

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

. It is funded by the

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. The Centre brings together academics from the fields of computer science, philosophy, social science and others. The centre works with the

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at the University of Oxford,

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, and the

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and has a memorandum of understanding with the

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at the

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Programmes

The CFI research is structured in a series of programmes and research exercises. The topics of the programmes range from algorithmic transparency to exploring the implications of AI for democracy. * AI: Futures and Responsibility * AI: Trust and Society * Kinds of Intelligence * AI: Narrative and Justice * Philosophy and Ethics of AI In July 2019, Leverhulme released the Animal-AI Olympics competition, featuring tests ordinarily used to test

animal intelligence Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psychology. It has also been strongly influenc ...

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* Future of Intelligence, Leverhulme Centre for the Futures studies organizations Existential risk organizations Existential risk from artificial general intelligence {{future-stub

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