For years, ambitious students eager to make their mark in Silicon Valley pursued degrees such as computer science, software engineering and data analytics—formerly dependable pathways that, in the age ...

AI Ethicist Henry Shevlin is moving from Cambridge to DeepMind. The philosopher—who has spent years studying whether AI systems can have moral status, published on how you'd detect consciousness in a ...

Henry Shevlin's hiring reflects a broader shift underway across the AI industry. Google DeepMind has appointed Henry Shevlin to the role of Philosopher, one of the more unusual job titles to emerge ...

Google DeepMind hired Henry Shevlin, a leading philosopher of mind and AI ethics, to serve as an in-house philosopher. The appointment marks one of the most prominent instances of a major AI lab ...

When people think about artificial intelligence, they usually imagine engineers or programmers building complex systems. But at Anthropic, one of the important people shaping how AI behaves is ...

A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ...

Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor, has been predicting this political moment for decades. We called him to discuss where we go from here. By Lauren Jackson I am the host of Believing. Michael ...

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New scientific understanding and engineering techniques have always impressed and frightened. No doubt they will continue to. OpenAI recently announced that it anticipates “superintelligence” – AI ...

In 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine developed a rapport with an excellent conversationalist. She was witty, insightful, and curious; their dialogues flowed naturally, on topics ranging from ...