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

By: Written by Robert P Baird and read by Simon Darwen. Produced by Nicola Alexandrou. The executive producer was Ellie Bury

17 July 2026 at 05:00

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

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