AGI Strategies

person

Nello Cristianini

Bath University; ML pioneer; 'Shortcut' author

Professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Bath; co-author of foundational textbooks on Support Vector Machines and kernel methods. Author of 'The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us' (2023).

current Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bath
homepage@NelloCristianini

Strategy positions

AI skepticmixed

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues modern AI represents a 'shortcut' to behavior that mimics intelligence without recreating its mechanisms; understanding the difference is essential to anticipating risks and capabilities.

Modern AI is a shortcut. We did not solve intelligence; we found ways to produce useful behaviour without it. The risks of this shortcut differ from the risks of human-like minds.
❧ bookThe Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us· CRC Press· 2023· faithful paraphrase

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    Abhijit Banerjee

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    MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate

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    Ada Lovelace

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    First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)

  • Aidan Gomez

    Aidan Gomez

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    CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

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    Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer

  • Alex Hanna

    Alex Hanna

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    Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

  • Andriy Burkov

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    ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author

Record last updated 2026-04-25.