Michael Spranger is the Chief Operating Officer of Sony Research Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation established in April 2023, and President of Sony AI, which is a division of Sony Research. He is a roboticist by training with extensive research experience in fields such as natural language processing, robotics, and foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Michael has published more than 100 papers at top AI conferences such as IJCAI, NeurIPS and others. Concurrent to Sony AI, he also holds a Senior Researcher position at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., and is actively contributing to Sony’s overall AI ethics strategy.