Matthew Botvinick
Google DeepMind | Yale University

Matthew Botvinick is Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind and Honorary Professor at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. His research spans machine learning, cognitive science, and computational and cognitive neuroscience.

AI agents are increasingly going to be acting for human principals. Understanding how such agents are making decisions will be critical, both for AI safety and for accountability. Gaining such understanding also presents an exciting scientific and philosophical question, which may shed light on human thought, as well.