Michael Wooldridge

Michael Woodridge is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford, where he uses game theory to understand how to build AI agents that can cooperate with each other. He has won national and international awards for research, science communication and scientific leadership. In 2023 he presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and in 2025 was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture by the Royal Society for his significant contributions as a leading AI researcher, educator, and popularizer of AI through his books, lectures, and media work.

His books include Artificial Intelligence (2018), part of the Ladybird Expert series, and The Road to Conscious Machines, which was published by Pelican in 2020.  Life Lessons in Game Theory: The Art of Thinking Strategically in a Complex World, will be published by Wildfire in 2026.

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