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Oct 2023
23m 18s

Google DeepMind talks AI risks

POLITICO
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Global regulators face no shortage of open questions about how to assess the risks of artificial intelligence — and who should bear responsibility for addressing them. On today’s POLITICO Tech, Google DeepMind general counsel Tom Lue tells host Steven Overly how the company is answering those questions.

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