Nigel Crook is Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Artificial Intelligence and robotics at Oxford Brookes University. He graduated from Lancaster University with a BSc (hons) in Computing and Philosophy in 1982. He has a PhD in medical expert systems and almost 30 years of experience as a lecturer and a researcher in AI. He is an expert reviewer for the European Commission and serves on several scientific committees for international conferences. His research interests include biologically inspired machine learning, embodied conversational agents and social robotics. His most recent work is in autonomous moral robots in which he is exploring how it might be possible to equip robots with a degree of moral competence. This would enable robots to recognise the moral consequences of their actions and be able to predict what kinds of behaviours are acceptable in a given situation. Prof Crook is also working on other aspects of ethical AI, including developing systems that can explain the decision of trained machine learning models and automatic personality typing. He is founder of the Ethical AI institute at Oxford Brookes University (formal launch summer 2019). His work in robotics has attracted some media attention, including 16 appearances on regional, national and international television channels.