Lila Ibrahim (DeepMind) & Greg Williams (WIRED): Pioneering a Culture of Responsibility I Slush 2021
Channel: Slush
Date: 06/12/2021

“Solving Intelligence for science and humanity'' is the long-term mission of DeepMind, a company most well-known for outsmarting the world's leading Go and Chess players and for AlphaFold, a solution to the 50-year-old problem of protein folding.

Thanks to popular culture, many of us are familiar with the not-so-realistic consequences of unmanaged general intelligence. Fewer of us, however, have a grasp of its positive applications to real world challenges or the questions we need to ask ourselves in order to responsibly develop such intelligence. DeepMind’s COO, Lila Ibrahim, is the person tasked with understanding the risks associated with developing General Intelligence, but also in encoding the essential sense of responsibility, ethics and social impact deep into the fabric of DeepMind’s company culture. Tune in for this fireside chat between Lila and Greg Williams, Deputy Global Editorial Director at WIRED as they talk through the steps of building a culture of responsibility.