person
Michael Wooldridge
Oxford computer science department head
Oxford head of CS who specialises in multi-agent systems. Author of The Road to Conscious Machines (2020) and widely-read historian of AI. Public voice for measured AI framings.
current Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues AI has had boom-and-bust cycles and that the current cycle is likely to over-promise on AGI.
“AI researchers have spent huge amounts of effort and money and repeatedly claimed to have made breakthroughs that bring the dream of intelligent machines within reach, only to have their claims exposed as hopelessly overoptimistic.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.