Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Whereas Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel could count as optimists (people who think that human life will improve), Schopenhauer is the first (and last) thinker in all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of Germany's greatest postwar intellectuals, he continuously argued for a robust and inclusive democracy. His passing marks the end of an era. Jürgen Habermas, world-renowned German philosopher ...

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 ...

When people imagine the engineers building today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, they usually picture computer scientists, mathematicians and software developers. At the AI company ...

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 ...

Amanda Askell, a Scottish academic-turned-AI researcher, leads the personality alignment team at Anthropic, the $350 billion AI company behind the chatbot Claude. Her job, as the Wall Street Journal ...

American artificial intelligence company Anthropic – which has developed the family of large language models named Claude – has created a unique position in their firm. Amanda Askell says there is a ...

Although many notable historical leaders succeeded either through battle or politics and gained honour for doing so, some rulers also made an impressive contribution to humanity's knowledge base; this ...