New Delhi, April 14 -- Google DeepMind has a fresh new hire, and it's not an AI engineer or researcher. Instead, the premier AI lab has hired a philosopher who will be working on areas like machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness.

Google DeepMind has hired Henry Shevlin for the position of 'philosopher'. Shevlin currently serves as the Associate Director (Education) at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

In his post on X (formerly Twitter), announcing his new role, Shevlin said he will be joining DeepMind in May.

"Big personal news: I've been recruited by Google DeepMind for a new Philosopher position (actual title), focusing on machine consciousness, human-AI relation...