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Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim is helping the world get ready for AI

Fast Company Tech Adele Peters June 18, 2026
Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim is helping the world get ready for AI
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# Google Creates New Role to Help the World Prepare for AI Google DeepMind has hired Lila Ibrahim as the world's first "chief AI readiness officer," a job focused on getting governments, schools, and the public ready for the rapid changes AI will bring. She's helping teachers learn to use AI in classrooms, advising government leaders on policies they might need to create, and running practice exercises where officials imagine how AI could transform healthcare or job markets. The basic idea: if more people understand and help shape how AI gets used, we'll make better decisions about where it should and shouldn't be deployed.

At Google DeepMind, Lila Ibrahim occupies a role that didn’t previously exist: chief AI readiness officer, focused on how to prepare the world for rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. She helps governments think about policy, boosts public understanding of AI, and works to ensure that Google d

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