Speaker: Chris Ambler

Chris Ambler explores how moral psychology shapes the split-second decisions of autonomous vehicles, unpacks how bias, culture, and values get coded into machines, discovers why sociocentric and individualistic communities demand different moral rules, and how Haidt’s elephant and rider help explain the emotional side of AI. He will touch on nudge theory, the butterfly effect, and the shifting role of humans and whether we stay ‘in the loop’ or drift ‘on the loop’. It’s a call to rethink AI not just as technology, but as moral machinery. Chris is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society, and a published author (The Psychology of AI Decision Making). For over 45 years he’s been involved in computing, serving in spanned senior roles in software quality assurance and testing for organisations in defence, telecoms, finance, banking, transport, as well as researching the psychology of human–AI interaction. He is driven by the question: how do we make technology not only work, but behave responsibly?