Toby Walsh is a British computer scientist and one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence. After his undergraduate degree from University of Cambridge, he completed his Ph.D in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and chief scientist at its AI institute, UNSW.ai. Walsh has been profiled by The New York Times and is the author of several books about AI for general readers, including Machines Behaving Badly and Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World. His Twitter (X) account was voted in the top ten to follow to keep abreast of developments in AI.