Eric Horvitz
Eric Horvitz is the Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft and an American computer scientist.
Horvitz received his doctoral work in computer science at Stanford University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and elected as a fellow by the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Horvitz is outspoken on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has testified before the US Senate on the benefits and risks of AI. He was a lead author of the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) report and serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
He delivered the keynote at the Bulletin Annual meeting on AI advances, aspirations, and concerns where he presented 10 caveats on uses of AI in high-stakes, time-critical areas such as military settings and participated in a Bulletin virtual program where he discussed the future of artificial intelligence.
Horvitz published his dissertation, Computation and Action Under Bounded Resources, in 1990 and has also been published in Science, PNAS, Nature, and more.
Horvitz's Bulletin contributions: