Henry Shevlin – a philosopher of mind and AI ethics from Cambridge, just got hired as an in-house philosopher at Google DeepMind. He'll be focusing on machine consciousness, human-AI interaction, and the ethical governance of increasingly autonomous systems. What's significant here: DeepMind is treating philosophy as a discipline on par with computer science and neuroscience, embedding it directly into core research rather than just keeping ethicists as external advisors. The labs are starting to think about the consciousness, agency, and moral reasoning question. Whereas, I am working at the applied human level – what happens when a mid-level manager doesn't trust the AI their company just deployed, or when a team's workflows break because no one designed the adoption path. That's not the philosophy angle but rather organisational and psychological infrastructure. Both matter. [Translated from EN to English]

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