VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Friday named synthetic intelligence pioneer Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, to its scientific academy, as Pope Francis seeks to affect the enlargement of the expertise.
The 47-year-old Briton was included on an inventory of specialists named to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, alongside Nobel prize-winning physicists Andrea Ghez and Didier Queloz.
Founded in 1603, the academy is the Vatican establishment that offers with science, expertise, medical ethics and philosophy. Its members should not chosen on spiritual grounds.
Pope Francis, 87, printed a six-page message in December warning of the hazards of AI and calling for a world treaty to make sure the expertise is utilized in an moral manner.
Hassabis based DeepMind as a start-up in London in 2010.
Four years later, it was acquired by US tech big Google, which final 12 months merged the corporate with the Brain unit of Google Research to type Google DeepMind. — Agence France-Presse
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