“ Michael explains the complex, strategic structures of our world with masterful beauty .” Milind Tambe, Harvard University
Discover the art of thinking strategically in a complex world. Concepts like zero-sum games and the prisoner’s dilemma crop up in films, novels and casual conversation, often as shorthand for cut-throat competition or inevitable betrayal, but the science behind these ideas is widely misunderstood. With real world examples ranging from overfishing in the Atlantic to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and security measures at international airports to advertising wars between major brands, Michael Wooldridge presents twenty one ‘life lessons’ which illustrate the key ideas in the field.
Michael Woodridge is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford, where he uses game theory to understand how to build AI agents that can cooperate with each other. He has won national and international awards for research, science communication and scientific leadership. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence (2018), part of the Ladybird Expert series, and The Road to Conscious Machines (2020).
In conversation with journalist and author Patchen Barss.