ALT Steve Roberts is Professor of Machine Learning in the Information Engineering Group at Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Statistical Society, the IET & ELLIS.eu and is co-founder of the Oxford spin-out company Mind Foundry. He was Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (2015-2021) and founding-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems in 2015. Steve is PI of Oxford’s Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Programme, co-lead of the Intelligent Earth Centre for Doctoral Training and Director of the Oxford-Martin School Programme on AI Security. His interests lie in the theory, methodology and application of machine learning to large-scale, real-world problem domains. His current research includes theory and methodology as well as applications in astrophysics, AI model safety, security & resilience, climate & environment, ecology, finance and engineering systems.