From catastrophic forgetting to frontier AI - Raia Hadsell, Google DeepMind
From Air Street Press by Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital)
April 2, 2026 · 5 min
About this episode
Raia Hadsell discusses her work at Google DeepMind, including advancements in AI and her role in the Frontier AI unit.
Raia Hadsell is VP of Research at Google DeepMind, co-leading the Frontier AI unit. Her work spans Siamese nets and elastic weight consolidation to Gemini 2.5, RoboCat, and a UK AI Ambassador role. A RAAIS 2026 speaker profile from Air Street Press.
People in this episode
Host: Nathan Benaich
Guest: Raia Hadsell
Topics covered
- AI research
- machine learning
- Siamese networks
- elastic weight consolidation
- frontier AI
- Google DeepMind
- AI ambassador
Keywords
- Raia Hadsell
- Google DeepMind
- AI
- machine learning
- Siamese networks
- Gemini 2.5
- RoboCat
- elastic weight consolidation
- frontier AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google DeepMind
Books & works: Gemini 2.5, RoboCat
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