Rijk Mercuur

Rijk Mercuur is a PhD Researcher on Social Artificial Intelligence at Delft University of Technology. He investigates to what extent a social model of humans can improve computer simulations. He uses these simulations to study important social systems: environmental commuting, environmental dining, basic income or hospitals. Rijk graduated cum laude at Utrecht Universities master's program in Artificial Intelligence in 2015.

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AI and Robotics: A blessing or a curse? (edX)

Learn about the societal impact of artificially intelligent robots and what you can do about it. Artificial Intelligence and robotics have an increasing impact on our society and our well-being. Many new opportunities are under development, such as care robots, autonomous vehicles and military purposes. [...]