Michael Spranger
Michael Spranger is the Senior Executive Director of Sony Research Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation established in April 2023, and President of Sony AI, a Sony Research division. Michael is a roboticist by training with extensive research experience in fields such as natural language processing, robotics, and foundations of artificial intelligence. Michael has published more than 70 papers at top AI conferences such as IJCAI and NeurIPS, as well as key publications including Nature and Science. Concurrent with Sony AI, he is actively contributing to Sony’s overall AI ethics strategy.
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