Google DeepMind has a fresh new hire, and it’s not an AI engineer or researcher. Instead, the premier AI lab has hired a philosopher who will be working on areas like machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness.
Who is the philosopher hired by Google DeepMind?
Google DeepMind has hired Henry Shevlin for the position of ‘philosopher’. Shevlin currently serves as the Associate Director (Education) at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.
In his post on X (formerly Twitter), announcing his…

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