John Zerilli

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John Zerilli is a legal scholar and philosopher with interests in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He is Senior Lecturer in Digital Law at King’s College London, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, and until recently was an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. He was previously a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was called to the Sydney bar in 2011. His published work appears in such journals as Philosophy of Science, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Synthese. His two most recent books are The Adaptable Mind (Oxford University Press, 2020) and A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2021).

Education

  • 2017 
    Australian National University, PhD
  • 2011 
    University of Sydney, MA
  • 2009 
    University of Cambridge, LLM

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Schmidt Future Fellowship
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Schmidt Futures
  • 2021
    Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust

Research Areas

  • Law (1801)
  • Political Theory And Political Philosophy (160609)
  • Philosophy And Religious Studies (22)
  • Psychology And Cognitive Sciences (17)
  • Linguistics (2004)
  • Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing (0801)

Honours

Recipient of a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust scholarship to undertake the Cambridge LL.M., 2008; highest-ranked thesis, Cambridge University, 2009; winner of the Lucy Firth Prize (valued at $1000) for best publication in philosophy, Sydney University, 2010.

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