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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI – podcast

Iason Gabriel, a philosopher working at Google DeepMind since 2017, tries to anticipate and think through the impact of AI, but faces growing commercial and geopolitical pressures that raise questions about whether ethicists can make a difference, according to a Guardian podcast.

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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI – podcast
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By Written by Robert P Baird and read by Simon Darwen. Produced by Nicola Alexandrou. The executive producer was Ellie BurySource:

The Guardian TechnologySince 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?

By Robert P Baird. Read by Simon Darwen

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