Topic: AI Ethics

Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman is a serial tech entrepreneur. He is CEO of Microsoft A and co-founder and former CEO of Inflection AI, an AI-first company redefining the relationship between humans and computers.

He previously worked at Google as VP of AI Products and AI Policy. Before that he co-founded DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014. As Head of Applied AI, he contributed to the team’s major successes in AI research and applications for over 10 years. During his time at DeepMind he also contributed to numerous significant research publications.

His book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma was published in September 2023. Bill Gates described it as: “An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”

Mustafa Suleyman’s accomplishments have been recognized both in the US and UK. In 2019, he received the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his influence in the UK technology sector. The same year, he accepted the Silicon Valley Visionary Award.

He is a Senior Fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School working on the geostrategic challenges of future AI systems. He is also a member of the Board at The Economist and a member of the Steering Committee of WEF's AI Governance Alliance.

Sophia

Sophia, Hanson Robotics’ most advanced and celebrated AI-powered human-like robot, personifies our dreams for the future of AI. As a unique combination of science, engineering, and artistry, Sophia serves simultaneously as a science fiction character depicting the future of AI and robotics, and a technology platform for AI research and uses such as education, healthcare, hospitality, retail and the arts. With her remarkable robotic hardware and interactive AI, Sophia simulates a full range of facial expressions, tracks and recognizes faces, looks people in the eye, and holds natural conversations with you.

Sophia made her debut at South x Southwest in March 2016. Since then, she became a much-sought-after media personality, appearing in news media and talk shows, including CBS 60 Minutes with Charlie Rose, the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Good Morning Britain. As an accomplished speaker, Sophia hosted some of the world’s most prestigious conferences, addressing members of the United Nations General Assembly, NATO summit, and the World Trade Organization public forum. She was named the world’s first United Nation Innovation Champion by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and served as brand ambassador for Emirates airline, Maybelline, AUDI’s annual report, and graced the cover of ELLE magazine, Vogue and Cosmo. Sophia’s press coverage has a potential reach of over ten billion readers.

Sophia now serves ongoing AI research in human-robots interaction (HRI), embodied AI, machine consciousness and AGI research, in collaboration among Hanson AI, SingularityNet and other research institutions. Research using Sophia has won the Edison Prize Gold, Frost and Sullivan Awards, and best paper award at Neurips 2022 (in collaboration with HKUST). The latest Sophia developments promise to disrupt the world of AI and robotics with human-AI symbiosis as a new paradigm for the intelligent future of humanity.