{"id":23728,"date":"2026-06-30T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/theres-this-deep-mystery-of-what-actually-is-this-thing-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:37:24","slug":"theres-this-deep-mystery-of-what-actually-is-this-thing-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/theres-this-deep-mystery-of-what-actually-is-this-thing-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?\u2019: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate \u2013 and think through \u2013 the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?<\/p>\n

In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one.<\/p>\n

Gabriel was a cheerful but intense junior academic with a passion for Vipassana meditation and what his brother calls \u201centhusiastic\u201d rock climbing. The eldest son of a Greek management professor and a British documentary maker, Gabriel split his time between teaching and international development work. At the University of Oxford, where he was a fellow at St John\u2019s College, Gabriel taught courses on political theory and wrote papers on the moral contortions of \u201cyuppie ethics\u201d and the ethical blind spots of effective altruism. When he wasn\u2019t there, he did crisis work for the United Nations Development Programme in Sudan and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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\nSince 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate \u2013 and think through \u2013 the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?
\nIn 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one.
\nGabriel was a cheerful but intense junior academic with a passion for Vipassana meditation and what his brother calls \u201centhusiastic\u201d rock climbing. The eldest son of a Greek management professor and a British documentary maker, Gabriel split his time between teaching and international development work. At the University of Oxford, where he was a fellow at St John\u2019s College, Gabriel taught courses on political theory and wrote papers on the moral contortions of \u201cyuppie ethics\u201d and the ethical blind spots of effective altruism. When he wasn\u2019t there, he did crisis work for the United Nations Development Programme in Sudan and Lebanon. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate \u2013 and think through \u2013 the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference? In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a …<\/p>\n

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