Murray Shanahan
Imperial College professor who describes chatbots as role-players
A professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior scientist at Google DeepMind. His 2023 Nature paper "Role play with large language models" argues chatbots are best understood as playing characters, not as beings with their own beliefs — a useful lens for AI personas.
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