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How a board game helps Google DeepMind plan for AI in science
Google DeepMind has a 7-hour-long roleplaying game that helps real scientists and policy makers understand how AI will transform science by 2030. And those who played it have found it more informative than any policy brief.
In this episode, Zoë Brammer and Ankur Vora, who lead strategic foresight at Google DeepMind, walk us through why they developed the game and the surprising learnings from it.
We cover:
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…
The skinny
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