Lila Ibrahim
Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind
Before running operations at Google DeepMind, she started out as a design engineer on Intel's Pentium chip.
- Born
- Not published
- Now
- Chief Operating Officer; Chief AI Readiness Officer, DeepMind
- Studied
- Purdue University
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Started at Intel in 1993 as a design engineer on the Pentium chip, and a decade later was chief of staff to CEO Craig Barrett.
en.wikipedia.org - Detour
Left chips for online education, serving as Coursera's president and then its chief business and operating officer from 2013 to 2017.
en.wikipedia.org - Side project
Co-founded Team4Tech, a nonprofit that pairs tech volunteers with education projects, and is now its chair emerita.
team4tech.org - Connection
In 2023 she signed the one-line statement calling AI extinction risk a global priority, alongside DeepMind founders Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg.
en.wikipedia.org - In their words
On her own AI use: "AI can help automate all of my tasks, but it cannot automate my Tuesdays."
cnbc.com
Career
- DeepMindChief Operating Officer; Chief AI Readiness Officer2018 to now
- CourseraPresident and Chief Operating Officer2013–2017
- Kleiner PerkinsSenior Operating Partner2010–2014
- IntelGeneral Manager, Emerging Markets Platform Group1993–2010
Education
- BS, Electrical and computer engineering, Purdue University, 1993
