{"id":186415,"date":"2024-03-30T18:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T23:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-gets-uk-knighthood-for-services-to-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2024-03-30T18:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T23:23:43","slug":"google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-gets-uk-knighthood-for-services-to-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-gets-uk-knighthood-for-services-to-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for \u2018services to artificial intelligence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-gets-uk-knighthood-for-services-to-artificial-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demis_Hassabis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demis Hassabis<\/a>, CEO and one of three founders of Google\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind, has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demishassabis\/status\/1773421805929202165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been awarded<\/a> a knighthood in the U.K. for \u201cservices to artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_Hogarth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Hogarth<\/a>, chair of the U.K. government\u2019s recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/ai-safety-institute-overview\/introducing-the-ai-safety-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI Safety Institute<\/a> and previously <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/05\/27\/songkick-passes-10m-monthly-fans-and-100m-revenue-to-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founder of music startup Songkick<\/a>, was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to AI; as was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mattcliffordef\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Clifford<\/a>, AI adviser to the U.K. government and co-founder of super\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/06\/28\/entrepreneur-first-raises-158m-at-a-560m-valuation-adding-stripes-collison-brothers-to-its-list-of-backers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early-stage investor Entrepreneur First<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demis Hassabis, CEO and one of three founders of Google\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind, has been awarded a knighthood in the U.K. for \u201cservices to artificial intelligence.\u201d Ian Hogarth, chair of the U.K. government\u2019s recently launched AI Safety Institute and previously founder of music startup Songkick, was awarded Commander of the Order of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}