Bruce Hood discusses how the developing human mind is constructed and affected by technology, and how we can leverage the science of the mind in building AI models of cognition.

Bruce Hood has been the Professor of Developmental Psychology at Bristol University since 2000. He undertook his Ph.D. at Cambridge followed by appointments at University College London, MIT and was a faculty professor at Harvard. He researches child development, origins of superstition and self-identity. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the British Psychological Society. He is the founder of ZoomTalks.org and has developed the successful course at Bristol University, The Science of Happiness. Hood has written four popular science books—SuperSense (2009), The Self Illusion (2012), The Domesticated Brain (2014) and Possessed (2019). He has appeared on various radio and TV shows and stars in the eco-documentary film Living in the Future’s Past (2018), presented by academy award-winner Jeff Bridges. Bruce currently co-hosts the BBC podcast The Happiness Half Hour.

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Moderated by Danielle Perszyk.