Google’s AI R&D division, DeepMind, has established a new organization, AI Safety and Alignment. This organization comprises existing teams working on AI safety and new specialized cohorts of GenAI researchers and engineers. It includes a new team focusing on safety around artificial general intelligence (AGI). The organization’s other teams are developing safeguards for Google’s Gemini models. Near-term focuses include preventing bad medical advice, ensuring child safety, and preventing the amplification of bias and other injustices. The organization is led by Anca Dragan, a former Waymo staff research scientist and a UC Berkeley professor of computer science.
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