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Tony Prescott

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Psychologist, roboticist, neuroscientist, and posthumanist working at Sheffield University, UK. Author of "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence". Also guitarist/singer. Blog https://tonyjprescott.com/, music https://soundcloud.com/tony-j-prescott

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Nov 24

In case you are wondering what "The Psychology of AI" is about I have put a summary on my blog tonyjprescott.com/2024/11/23/t...

New book: The psychology of artificial intelligence

This is a relatively short (35,000 words) single author book, first published in July 2024, and intended for the general reader interested in artificial intelligence and its similarities to human i…

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are hosting a workshop on biomimetic cognitive architectures on July 15th as part of #LM25 the International Living Machines conference in Sheffield. Still space for some short talks, more info at docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Cognitive Architecture Workshop

Living Machines 2025 Workshop, Tuesday 15th July Biomimetic Cognitive Architectures for Living Machines Organisers: Tony Prescott, Paul Verschure Abstract The goal of this workshop is to better und...

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · May 14

Talk starting now :-)

Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · May 12

I will be giving an online seminar "Analysis and synthesis of the embodied self: A robotics perspective" this Wednesday at 11am. Its open to the general public and free, you can register here www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/rob...

Events with the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)

University of Plymouth research: Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS). Events and seminar series

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · May 12

New review article with Alejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez "Understanding the layered brain architecture for motivation: dynamical systems, computational neuroscience, and robotic approaches" in Psychology of Learning and Motivation v.165. Free download via this link
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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thanks to everyone who has signed up to join our @RoyalSociety meeting on "sense of self". Free registration (onine or in-person) is still open, and we will consider poster submissions up to 1 week before the meeting. We'd love to see you there!
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From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self | Royal Society

Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Apr 3

Delighted to announce that Dr Mike Mangan, VP Research at Opteran ltd, will give a plenary "Opteran: Reverse engineering insect brains to create minds for machines" at Living Machines 2025, Sheffield this July. CfP open till April 14th livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary... @opteran.bsky.social

PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Mar 24

The Royal Society is hosting our 2-day meeting on the "sense of self" this May in London. We have fantastic speakers from psychology/neuroscience, philosophy, and AI/robotics. In-person/online attendance is free. Poster submission now open royalsociety.org/science-even...

From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self | Royal Society

Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Mar 5

AGI needs embodiment! Listening to a great talk from ACM Athena Lecture award winner Maja Mataric at #HRI2025

Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Mar 5

At #HRI2025 with our HeyMiro demo. Great to meet the wider community in human-robot interaction :-) heymiro.org

Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Mar 5

Delighted to announce that Dr Maria Guix, of Uni. Barcelona, a rising star in the field of nanotechnology, will give a plenary talk "Designing Biohybrid Robots" at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open till March 30th
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PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Feb 7

Delighted to announce that Prof Murray Shanahan, of Google DeepMInd and Imperial College London, will give a plenary talk "What Sort of Thing sia Large Language Model?" at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open. livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary...

PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Feb 4

At the Children's AI Summit in London with our "Hey MIRo" demo :-) @shefrobotics.bsky.social

Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Jan 21

My lecture this Thursday on "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" will now be livestreamed from around 5-5.15pm GMT (n.b. registration now closed for in-person attendance). If interested, please join by this link meet.google.com/qbk-hagv-nrc

Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Jan 9

How can participatory design benefit from a posthumanist perspective? A short essay with Stuart Murray & Julie Robillard, published in BMJ MH, about the need for co-design methods that better acknowledge the entangled & interconnected nature of our technologised lives mh.bmj.com/content/50/4...

Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design

Participatory design places a strong emphasis on human agency, user perspectives and democratic ideals of inclusivity and empowerment, and is therefore often associated with humanist principles and va...

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Jan 9

How should we co-design future assistive tech? Read about our experience in the "Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures" project in this new BMJ Medical Humanities special issue. 3 contributions from our Sheffield team :-) @michaelszollosy.bsky.social mh.bmj.com/content/50/4...

Medical Humanities: 50 (4)

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Jan 9

Delighted to announce that Dr Kaushik Jayaram, from the University of Colorado, a leading light in the field of robot modelling of legged animals will give a plenary talk at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield in July. CfP now open. #lm2025 livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary...

PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Dec 16

I'll be giving a public lecture in Sheffield, UK, based on my new book "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" on 23rd January, 5.30pm. If you'd like to come along please register by January 7th using this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Professor Tony Prescott- The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

Please join us on Thursday 23rd January for a talk from Professor Tony Prescott on the themes of his recently launched book The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence. Blurb: What is Artificial Intel...

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Dec 15

Are social robots deceptive? In this new blog post, I argue that social robots are not deceptive when they are designed to respect some important principles based on a relational view of ethics tonyjprescott.com/2024/12/15/d...
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Are Social Robots Deceptive? It’s Complicated…

There is increasing interest in social robots as assistive technologies to support a wide range of potential user groups. Nevertheless, the widespread use of robots has been challenged in ter…

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Dec 15

We recently a review in Science Robotics on Understanding the Sense of Self through Robotics. More information here tonyjprescott.com/2024/12/02/u...

Understanding the sense of self through robotics

Could we create a sense of self for a robot and how would that help advance our understanding of the human self? This post summarises a Science Robotics review article I authored with Kai Vogeley a…

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Dec 5

Delighted to announce that Prof Agniezska Wykowska, head of the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction unit at the Italian Institute of Technology, will give a plenary talk at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open. livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary... #lm2025

PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Dec 2

Co-authored with Agniezska Wykowska and Kai Vogeley

Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Dec 2

I recently published a review in Science Robotics on understanding the sense of self through robotics. Find out more at tonyjprescott.com/2024/12/02/u... #ai #robotics #psychology

Understanding the sense of self through robotics

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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · Nov 27

AI tech from University of Sheffield is enabling drones to detect and tackle UK wildfires faster with thermal imaging and self-coordinated fire response.

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Swarms of drones detect and extinguish fires in trial | Electro Optics

Using AI technology from the University of Sheffield – which incorporates thermal and optical imaging – the self-coordinated drones can automatically detect, investigate and supress fires

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi Monica, Please add me to the science list. Im a cognitive scientist and science communicator working at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, robotics and AI orcid.org/0000-0003-49...

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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · Nov 26

We are hosting the 14th edition of the Living Machines International conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems in my home city of Sheffield, UK, in July 2025. Please think of submitting a paper. We'd love to see you there! livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/call-fo... @shefrobotics.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS – Living Machines 2025

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