Osborne has contributed to over 100 publications,[8] and his work has received over 24,000 citations with an h-index of 46 according to Google Scholar.[9] and has acted as principal or co-investigator for £10.6M of research funding.[10]
His career has focused in particular on Bayesian approaches to AI and machine learning, named after the famous British statistician Thomas Bayes.[11] Osborne's work has contributed to Probabilistic numerics, with Osborne co-authoring the first textbook on the subject.[12]
In 2013, Osborne co-authored a paper alongside Swedish-German economist Carl Benedikt Frey called "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?".[13] The paper has received over 13,000 citations and extensive media coverage.[14][15][16]
In 2023 Osborne gave oral evidence to the UKHouse of CommonsScience and Technology Committee on the subject of the "Governance of Artificial Intelligence".[17] His testimony received significant coverage around his warnings of the threat of "rogue AI".[18][19]
Honors
He is also an Official Fellow of Exeter College,[20] a Fellow of the ELLIS society,[21] and a Faculty Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.[22] He joined the Oxford Martin School as Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment in 2015.[23] He is a Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.[24]
