The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?

Google DeepMind hired Cambridge philosopher Henry Shevlin to tackle AI ethics, machine consciousness, and moral status of AI as the industry races toward AGI.