As Google takes on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Anthropic in the artificial intelligence market, company’s AI unit, DeepMind, has hired Jasjeet Sekhon as its new chief strategy officer. Sekhon will work directly with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis to drive the company’s AI innovation and R&D efforts. He has previously held professorships at some of the world’s top universities, including Harvard; University of California, Berkeley; and most recently as a data and political science professor at Yale. Sekhon announced he is joining Google DeepMind in posts on X, formerly Twitter and LinkedIn. “I’m excited to share that I will be joining @demishassabis and @GoogleDeepMind as Chief Strategy Officer! I feel a moral obligation to shepherd AGI into the world responsibly, benefiting everyone. I am looking forward to doing this with the team at DeepMind,” he wrote. Hassabis replied to his post, saying: Thrilled to welcome Jas Sekhon to @GoogleDeepMind as Chief Strategy Officer! The path to AGI requires exceptional thoughtfulness and foresight – Jas’ incredible experience as former Chief Scientist & Head of AI at Bridgewater makes him uniquely suited to advise us on the mission.
Jasjeet Sekhon’s ‘joining announcement’ on LinkedIn
I am excited to announce that I am joining Google DeepMind as Chief Strategy Officer, partnering directly with Demis Hassabis to lead cross-cutting strategic initiatives spanning research, commercialisation, and policy.AGI will be a world-changing technology without precedent, accelerating science, medicine, and human productivity in profound ways. I am committed to shepherding this technology responsibly to benefit everyone. I am joining Google DeepMind because I believe it is the frontier lab best positioned to develop AGI safely to empower humans.In 2023, I co-founded AIA Labs at Bridgewater alongside co-CIO Greg Jensen. I was drawn to developing AI for markets because markets are the ultimate game: they cannot be solved, and their benchmarks cannot be saturated. Today, AIA Labs manages billions of dollars and generates alpha in global markets. Being Bridgewater’s Chief Scientist and Head of AI has been a privilege, and I am honored to join the Bridgewater board.I am deeply grateful to everyone at Bridgewater, Yale, Berkeley, and people across the AI community who have made the last several years so meaningful. I look forward to my next chapter at Google DeepMind.”Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis’ welcome note for Jasjeet SekhonHassabis welcomed Jasjeet Sekhon in a LinkedIn post. He wrote, “We started DeepMind back in 2010 because even then we believed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) would be the most transformative technology ever invented. It has the potential to be the ultimate tool to accelerate science and medicine, and improve productivity. The impact will be profound, but the challenges and complexities are also enormous.Thoughtfulness and foresight will be critical as we seek to steward this technology safely into the world to benefit everyone. As part of our contribution to that effort, I’m thrilled to welcome Jasjeet Sekhon to Google DeepMind as Chief Strategy Officer to partner with me on strategy cutting across research, commercialisation, policy and more. Jas is uniquely experienced for this role, having served as Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Bridgewater Associates, where he now joins the board.Super excited to be working with Jas to accelerate this important work at such a critical time for this technology.”
