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Iason Gabriel

Iason Gabriel

AGI & Society Lead, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Technology Leaders Initiative

London, United Kingdom

Iason Gabriel is a philosopher and senior staff research scientist based at Google DeepMind, where he leads the AGI & Society Team. Iason’s work focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence, including questions about AI value alignment, distributive justice, language ethics and human rights. 

He is interested in the relationship between AI and human values – and in ensuring that technology works well for the benefit of all. Before joining Google DeepMind, Iason taught moral and political philosophy at Oxford University and worked for the United Nations in Lebanon and Sudan. Iason was recently named one of the 100 most influential people working in the field of AI by TIME magazine. Iason is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Technology Leaders Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.