DeepMind's cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What's next is interactive AI.

Suleyman has had an unshaken faith in technology as a force for good at least since we first spoke in early 2016. He had just launched DeepMind Health and set up research collaborations with some of the UK's state-run regional health-care providers. The magazine I worked for at the time was about to publish an article claiming that DeepMind had failed to comply with data protection regulations when accessing records from some 1.6 million patients to set up those collaborations--a claim later backed up by a government investigation. Suleyman couldn't see why we would publish a story that was hostile to his company's efforts to improve health care. As long as he could remember, he told me at the time, he'd only wanted to do good in the world.