Stephen Cave
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| Born | 1973 St Austell, England |
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| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Bristol Hughes Hall, Cambridge |
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Stephen Cave is a British philosopher and former diplomat. At the University of Cambridge, he is the Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Philosophy, and Fellow of Hughes Hall.[1] He is the author of the books Immortality and Should You Choose To Live Forever, and co-editor of the books AI Narratives, Imagining AI, and Feminist AI.
Education and career[edit]
Cave obtained his PhD in philosophy, on personal identity theory, from Cambridge in 2001. He then joined the British Foreign Office, where he served for eight years as a policy advisor and diplomat, working on European Union treaty negotiations.[2] From 2005 to 2017, he lived in Berlin; he is fluent in German.[3][4] In 2009, he became a critic for the Financial Times,[5] turning to writing full-time for his first book, Immortality (2012). He has written and spoken on a wide range of philosophical and scientific subjects, including in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and on television and radio around the world. His article 'There's No Such Thing As Free Will' for The Atlantic informed the Season 2 finale of the TV series Westworld.[6][7] In 2016 he was hired to direct the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.[3] His research interests currently focus on philosophy of technology, particularly critical perspectives on AI, robotics, and life extension.[8][not in citation given]
Philosophical work[edit]
Artificial intelligence[edit]
Cave is the Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, a research centre at the University of Cambridge focusing on the ethics of artificial intelligence. He has co-edited three books on the portrayals and perceptions of artificial intelligence:
- AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (2020), alongside Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon.[9] The book is a collection of essays examining how narrative representations of AI have shaped technological development, understanding of humans, and the social and political orders that emerge from their relationships. The Times Literary Supplement remarked that this book is a “compelling collection shows how AI narratives have prompted critical reflection on human-machine relations”.[10]
- Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (2023), alongside Kanta Dihal.[11] The essays in this book explore how artificial intelligence has been portrayed around the world, with a focus on cultures outside the English-speaking West.
- Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines (forthcoming September 2023), alongside Jude Browne, Eleanor Drage, and Kerry McInerney.[12]
Immortality and life extension ethics[edit]
Expanding on concepts from his PhD thesis on personal identity theory, Cave's first book, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization, was published in 2012 with Penguin Random House. It became a New Scientist Book of the Year that year. In The Economist, S. Jay Olshansky called it "a must-read exploration of what spurs human ingenuity".[13] A TED talk on the themes of the book, 'The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death', has amassed over 2.5 million views.[14]
He continues his research into immortality and life extension in the forthcoming book Should You Choose To Live Forever: A Debate (2024), a book written as a debate between Cave and John Martin Fischer.[15]
Selected works[edit]
- Cave, Stephen (2012). Immortality. Penguin Random House.
- Cave, Stephen, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon, ed. (2020) AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines. Oxford University Press.
- Cave, Stephen, and Kanta Dihal, ed. (2023) Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines. Oxford University Press.
- Browne, Jude, Stephen Cave, Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, ed. (August 2023) Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines. Oxford University Press.
- Cave, Stephen, and John Martin Fischer (2023). Should You Choose to Live Forever? A Debate. Routledge.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Stephen Cave". Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ↑ "Stephen Cave". AI for Good Global Summit. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Manthorpe, Rowland (12 October 2016). "The UK has a new AI centre – so when robots kill, we know who to blame". WIRED.
- ↑ "In the Face of Death" (PDF). Falmouth University. 8 January 2016.
- ↑ Cave, Stephen (18 December 2009). "The heart of a German Christmas". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ↑ Cave, Stephen (June 2016). "There's No Such Thing As Free Will". The Atlantic. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ↑ Mellor, Louisa (20 June 2018). "Westworld: Why Maggie Simpson is Key to the Season 2 Finale". Den of Geek. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ↑ "Stephen Cave - Hughes Hall". Hughes Hall. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ↑ Cave, Stephen; Dihal, Kanta; Dillon, Sarah, eds. (14 February 2020). AI narratives: a history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines (First ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-258604-9. OCLC 1143647559. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2020. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ "AI Narratives, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon review". TLS. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ↑ "Imagining AI - Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal - Oxford University Prss". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ↑ "Feminist AI". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ↑ "Immortality by Stephen Cave". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ↑ "Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death'". TED. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ↑ "Should You Choose to Live Forever: A Debate". Routledge. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
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