Illustration: Guardian Design; Deena So Oteh/The Guardian Illustration: Guardian Design; Deena So Oteh/The GuardianNeed something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days1. ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI Illustration: The Guardian
double quotation markYour natural inclination is to always want to build the safest technology that takes no risks with people. But in a way that isn’t giving people credit for the risks they want to take themselves.
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, Robert P Baird asked if ethicists make any difference?Read more2. David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: ‘“Today is the last day,” I told myself – but I was powerless to stop’ Illustration: Jonny Glover/The Guardian
double quotation markThis turned me into the person whom, since the turn of this latest century, I have most hated: one who moves about while staring down at a device. On the busy sidewalk, at the airport, everywhere a person should be paying the utmost attention to those around them, I suddenly was not.
