5/ It began around a table at Jesus College last October and became a properly collective effort. Thanks to @ronivey, @Noesis_Collab, colleagues at @LeverhulmeCFI, and contributors including @Livingstone_S, @RaviDataIyer, @drtimlomas, @samhiner. Executive brief and paper below!

4/ The paper builds on my research on anthropomimesis (designing human-likeness into AI) and Social AI. Systems optimised to perform emotions at children and elicit them in turn warrant the care and scrutiny we give any powerful, poorly understood developmental influence.

4/ The paper builds on my research on anthropomimesis (designing human-likeness into AI) and Social AI. Systems optimised to perform emotions at children and elicit them in turn warrant the care and scrutiny we give any powerful poorly understand developmental influence.