Titans of Science: Mike Wooldridge

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Our Titans of Science series continues with Mike Wooldridge, Ashall Professor of Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford. He has conducted extensive work in the field of agentic AI, systems comprising multiple interacting AIs. In this episode, he tells Chris Smith what drew him to computers and AI in the first place, the pioneering work of Geoff Hinton, why ChatGPT isn't made to speak the truth, and what's in store for us as AI continues to develop... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.4	Absolutely genius.
0:04.3	Welcome.
0:05.1	Welcome.
0:06.1	This is the show where we bring science.
0:07.9	What that essentially means is...
0:09.4	Discovery is...
0:10.0	Advances.
0:10.5	Research.
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0:12.6	Unbelievable.
0:13.5	Without further ado, this is the naked scientists.
0:17.6	Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast, the program that brings you the biggest
0:22.1	breakthroughs and also talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology
0:27.0	and medicine.
0:28.6	I'm Chris Smith, and today we're shining the spotlight on the transformative technology
0:33.7	that is AI, and finding out from AI pioneer and this week's Titan of Science, Mike
0:39.5	Waldridge, how it works, whether we can trust it and what the future holds.
0:50.5	Oxford University's Mike Waldridge is an AI pioneer.
0:55.0	He struck out boldly into the uncharted waters of this emerging field after a degree
0:59.2	and then a PhD in computer science in the 1980s.
1:02.9	He was very much an early adopter and a visionary, ample qualifications to be our Titan of Science this week.
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