Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a vice president and fellow at Google, where he is the chief technology officer of Technology & Society and founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence team. His book “What Is Intelligence?” will be released in September by Antikythera and MIT Press.


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DATE POSTED
April 8, 2025
Essay Technology & the Human
AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence
Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.
Artwork by Kate Banazi for Noema Magazine's article on artificial intelligence.
DATE POSTED
October 10, 2023
Essay Technology & the Human
Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here
Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial ...
DATE POSTED
July 18, 2023
Essay Digital Society
The Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk
Focusing on the prospect of human extinction by AI in the distant future may prevent us from addressing AI’s disruptive dangers to society today.
DATE POSTED
July 12, 2022
Essay Technology & the Human
The Model Is The Message
The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, langu...