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AI is advancing faster than most organizations can adapt — and business leaders are under pressure to make the right decisions amid uncertainty, hype, and rapid change. In this conversation, Google DeepMind research scientist Richard Zhang unpacks what leaders need to understand about how modern AI truly works and where it’s headed next, from emerging risks to transformative new capabilities.
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Episode Guest
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Richard Zhang
Richard Zhang is currently at Google Deepmind on the Vizier team, and is a co-creator of OSS Vizier, working on hyperparameter/prompt/data/agent optimization, reinforcement learning, and theoretical machine learning.
Richard graduated with a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by Professor Satish Rao and Professor Nikhil Srivastava. Previously, he graduated from Princeton University’s Great Class of 2014.
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