Guardian profile of Google DeepMind's Iason Gabriel questions if corporate ethicists can steer frontier AI development

What does it mean to be an ethicist and a philosopher working in an AI company?

What questions do we explore – and can we affect positive change?

For a deep exploration of these themes, check out a new long-read by Bobby Baird in the @guardian today...

Take a look: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/30/theres-this-deep-mystery-of-what-actually-is-this-thing-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind

If there’s a unifying theme that pulls together the 30+ articles I’ve written on AI ethics, it’s that we need to find ways to live well together + pay special attention to the impact of AI on the worst-off, something that was also close to the heart of the philosopher John Rawls.

With shout outs to @dhadfieldmenell, @saffronhuang, @hannahrosekirk, @wsisaac, @rohinmshah and others!

@Dr_Atoosa @guardian @IasonGabriel Not first! Preceded by Heather Roff, and I think they overlapped for a little while?

@IasonGabriel @guardian 🤩

@sethlazar @Dr_Atoosa @guardian We joined at the same time 👍

@sethlazar @guardian @IasonGabriel To factor in my uncertainty, I wrote “perhaps first” :)