Robert P Baird in The Guardian:
After starting at DeepMind in 2017, Gabriel was, for a time, the only active philosopher working at a frontier AI lab. He quickly discovered that his background in moral philosophy and political theory gave him an unusual perspective in an industry dominated by engineers. Over the past decade, he has assembled a body of work that tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges created by the surprising success of large language models (LLMs).
As Dylan Hadfield-Menell, who leads the Algorithmic Alignment Group at MIT, told me, Gabriel was “the right person meeting the moment. As the field was ready to mature and move into prime time, he figured out a way to broaden the horizons without attacking or denigrating the work that came before.”
More generally, Gabriel has been a leading advocate for the idea that the current wave of AI development demands not just new technical vocabularies but also new ways of thinking about our relationship to technology, and even to ourselves.
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