HenryShevlin

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About me About I’m an AI ethicist and philosopher of cognitive science, working on human-AI relationships, machine minds, and human flourishing in the age of AI. Since 2026 I’ve done this from inside Google DeepMind, where my job title is, improbably, Philosopher. I keep one foot in Cambridge, at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence , where I co-founded the UK’s first master’s programmes in AI ethics and have shepherded rather a lot of graduate students. The central questions that motivate my research are at once perennial yet suddenly very pressing. How can we distinguish conscious from non-conscious entities? Where does anthropomorphism end, and where do non-human minds beg

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