In 2010, Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, and Shane Legg founded DeepMind, also with funding from TESCREAList billionaires Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jaan Tallinn, among others (Shead, 2017) (see Table 1). DeepMind’s mission is “solving i…Paula Sambo, Jeremy Hill, and Yueqi Yang, 2023. “FTX halts sale of its $500 million stake in AI startup Anthropic,” Bloomberg (27 June), at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/bankman-fried-s-ftx-said-to-halt-sale-of-its-stak…
Demis Hassabis
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Demis Hassabis is the co-founder of DeepMind, a landmark AI research organization established in 2010 with backing from prominent tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The course readings use DeepMind's founding and mission as a case study in how contemporary AI development is entangled with billionaire patronage and the promise of solving intelligence itself—a framing that raises questions about whose interests shape the trajectory of machine learning and artificial intelligence development.
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