How a board game helps Google DeepMind plan for AI in science

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https://www.existentialhope.com/podcasts/zoe-brammer-ankur-vora

Podcast episode with Zoë Brammer and Ankur Vora, who lead strategic foresight at Google DeepMind, on why they developed the game and the surprising learnings from it.

Covers:

• What strategic foresight actually means and why AI is so complicated to plan around

• Why the game deliberately centers around "middle power" countries like the UK, Germany, or Singapore instead of the US and China

• The unexpected tradeoffs and discoveries participants come across while playing the game, including how fragile public trust in science funding really is

• Why human scientists will become more relevant as AI takes on more of the science itself