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Dr Joshua Tenenbaum FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2026
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology

Summary

Joshua Tenenbaum's research focuses on computational models of human cognition, its development and its neural basis, and using these models as the foundation for new kinds of artificial intelligence that are more efficient, general, understandable, safe and pro-human.

Current post

Whitehead Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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