Intelli-genes: Wiring intelligence

Intelligence is a core construct within our society. It is one of the best predictors of education, occupation and health. With this in mind, it is important to understand the origins of individual differences in intelligence and ask questions such as: how heritable is intelligence? Does the heritability change over time? And how do the components of intelligence relate to one another? We look at the broad range of intelligence across the population to answer these questions.

It has been claimed that we are on the verge of an Artificial Intelligence revolution and that, as with any revolution promising a utopia, we should heed warnings that all might not be well in the promised land of super intelligent machines. Indeed, many consider that the enslavement of humanity by such machines is a real prospect and not just the stuff of SciFi. To help prevent such outcomes, I will argue that machines need to be able to reason about moral and ethical issues, and then describe how my research in logic and argument can contribute to this aim.