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

from The Audio Long Read · host The Guardian

Since 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. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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