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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

810 points · 862 comments · colesantiago

tough · 1785947182 · focus · HN ↗
Oh wow demis and Jeff, that Ethics engineer who left GDM, and reached to both and posted on lesswrong a couple weeks [1] ago did make a difference?
1. <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left-google-deepmind" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left...
1. bkishan · 1785947288 · focus · HN ↗
  what was the post?
  1. tough · 1785947323 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left-google-deepmind" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left...
2. TulliusCicero · 1785947840 · focus · HN ↗
  ...you think they've only been planning this for a couple weeks?
  1. tough · 1785947957 · focus · HN ↗
    hmm not really, and it probably isnt the origin, but im glad to see him vindicated by having both C-level google leadership people who targeted to try and either stop google from doing the pentagon deal, both stepping down the same day.
    At least it makes me feel like he reaching out might have made a difference on remembering this people killer robots are bad, and being part of it might not be on the best of their interests to go down on history for
3. cma · 1785948419 · focus · HN ↗
  Alex Turner discusses a bit here at this timestamp:
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlJQHVeKIA&t=14m27s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlJQHVeKIA&t=14m27s

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