About Us

FOUNDER + PRINCIPAL 

MARK DENNIS ROBINSON, PHD

Mark Dennis Robinson, Ph.D., is the founder and principal of Oxbridge_AI. Focused on three key verticals, including AI Ethics Consulting, AI Compliance Solutions, & AI-Focused Corporate Research, Oxbridge_AI provides companies with innovative strategies that help them manage the novel challenges facing firms working in artificial intelligence.

A specialist in bioethics, the ethics of artificial intelligence, as well as the legal and social implications of emerging technologies, Robinson is Associate Professor of bioethics at Creighton University School of Medicine. Merging bioethics and the philosophy of science, his book, The Market in Mind: How Financialization Is Shaping Neuroscience, Translational Medicine, and Innovation in Biotechnology (MIT Press), was the first to analyze the ethics of translational neuroscience and the impacts of bioinformatic software on global psychopharmaceutical innovation. Robinson has authored work across various subjects, including the history of neuroscience, dilemmas in pharmacoeconomics, the implications of psychopharmaceuticalization, and ethical issues in neurotechnology. Robinson has also authored entries on science, technology, and ethics in the Oxford Encyclopedia and the World History Encyclopedia.

After founding a Silicon Valley-based edtech startup, Robinson founded London-based Oxbridge_AI because of a deeply held belief in the transformative potential of artificial intelligence for industrial innovation and society, writ large.

Robinson's work has garnered global recognition, including the Early Career Award in Neuroethics in Montreal, Switzerland's Brocher Foundation, Italy's Giannino Basseti Foundation, the Wicklander fellowship in ethics, and the Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Award. Robinson won the Trustee Scholarship at Chicago, the Galbraith Prize at Harvard, the Sterling Prize at Yale (declined), and the Presidential Award at Princeton.

A former fellow at both Harvard and Yale Law Schools, Robinson earned a degree in linguistics from Northwestern, master's degrees from the University of Chicago, a master's and Ph.D. from Princeton, and a master's degree in bioethics from Harvard Medical School before attending Yale, where he graduated from it’s Conservatory Program for Actors. Robinson is presently completing a master’s program in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where his thesis outlines a computational model that uses artificial intelligence to enhance moral reasoning.

Our Values

+ Good Firms Provide Value.

With a focus on precision, rigor, multi-disciplinarity, and a positive outlook, our firm seeks both an expeditious and thorough process, balancing efficiency with the goal of producing “good work.”

+ Enormous Potential in AI.

While we understand the power of AI to help spur innovation across many markets, there is a dire need for higher-quality thinking and better facts to meet our complex contemporary challenges.

For us, AI is crucial for meeting growing market opportunities and needs and for meeting moral opportunities and needs created by unassisted or non-computational thinking.

Given the complexity of contemporary global problems and the profound limitations of the non-computational mind, true ethics likely require algorithms.

The risks to the world—ethical, environmental, and economic— are birthed by the non-algorithmic mind. It behooves humanity to manage the pitfalls of such cognition using computational power and to see the problems that emerge from unassisted, low-quality thinking.

+ Good work takes time.

Oxbridge_AI seeks to balance the expeditious delivery of high-quality products and services with a focus on rigor and careful work— crucial to the process of effectively identifying , assessing, and managing both the real risks and harms of AI as well as its real transformative moral possibilities .