Professor Raphaël Millière
About
Raphaël Millière is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and at the Institute for Ethics in AI. He holds an AI2050 fellowship from Schmidt Sciences.
His research investigates the boundary between artificial intelligence and human cognition, addressing the question of whether today’s AI systems genuinely understand and reason, or simply mimic human language. To answer this, he focuses on opening the 'black box' of AI systems to reveal how they process information internally. In turn, he uses insights from studying AI to inform theories of human cognition. He also works on issue related to AI safety and ethics.
Image: Ian Wallman
Expertise
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Language models
- AI ethics
- AI safety
- Cognition
- Consciousness
- Chatbots
Selected publications
Media experience
Professor Raphaël Millière’s work has been covered by CNN, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Wired, Vox, the Institute of Art and Ideas and Nautilus magazine, among others. He has given keynotes to large audiences at events such as Congreso Futuro in Chile.
Recent media work
- AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises (The Guardian, 2025)
- Every Tech Company Wants to Be Like Boston Dynamics (The Atlantic, 2024)
- The Turing Tests of today are mistaken (Institute of Arts and Ideas, 2024)
- Decoding generative artificial intelligence (CNN, 2024)
- Why it’s important to remember that AI isn’t human (Vox, 2023)
- AI Art Is Challenging the Boundaries of Curation (Wired, 2022)
Languages
English, French