Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW and CSIRO Data61. He is Chief Scientist of UNSW.AI, UNSW’s new AI Institute. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many others on this topic. This advocacy has led to him being banned indefinitely from Russia.
Toby is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and was named on the international Who’s Who in AI list of influencers. He has written five books on AI for a general audience, most recently The Shortest History of AI and Faking It! Artificial Intelligence in A Human World.