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Michael Osborne (born 1982 [1] ) is an Australian academic and scientist who serves as a professor of machine learning at University of Oxford in the Machine Learning Research Group in the Department of Engineering Science. [2]
In 2016 he co-founded Mind Foundry, [3] an artificial intelligence company, along with fellow professor Stephen Roberts. [4]
Osborne suffered from long COVID syndrome. [1] He is an advocate for masking to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID disease. [5]
He has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and a BSc in both Pure Mathematics and Physics from the University of Western Australia. [6] He has a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Oxford. [7]
Osborne has contributed to over 100 publications, [8] and his work has received over 24,000 citations with an h-index of 46 according to Google Scholar. [9] and has acted as principal or co-investigator for £10.6M of research funding. [10]
His career has focused in particular on Bayesian approaches to AI and machine learning, named after the famous British statistician Thomas Bayes. [11] Osborne's work has contributed to Probabilistic numerics, with Osborne co-authoring the first textbook on the subject. [12]
In 2013, Osborne co-authored a paper alongside Swedish-German economist Carl Benedikt Frey called "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?". [13] The paper has received over 13,000 citations and extensive media coverage. [14] [15] [16]
In 2023 Osborne gave oral evidence to the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on the subject of the "Governance of Artificial Intelligence". [17] His testimony received significant coverage around his warnings of the threat of "rogue AI". [18] [19]
He is also an Official Fellow of Exeter College, [20] a Fellow of the ELLIS society, [21] and a Faculty Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. [22] He joined the Oxford Martin School as Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment in 2015. [23] He is a Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems. [24]
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