Blaise Agüera y Arcas: podcast appearances and interviews

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, born on August 28, 1975, is an American researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He holds the position of vice president, fellow, and chief technology officer of Technology & Society at Google, where he leads the Paradigms of Intelligence team focused on basic research in artificial intelligence and related areas. Agüera y Arcas is recognized for his contributions to on-device machine learning technology and for inventing federated learning. In 2016, he established the Artists and Machine Intelligence program at Google, which aims to create art by collaborating with machine intelligence engineers and artists. Prior to joining Google in 2013, he worked as an engineer at Microsoft, where he was the architect of Bing Maps and Bing Mobile. Throughout his career, Agüera y Arcas has published numerous scientific articles, essays, and op-eds, and has delivered TED Talks. He is also an author, having published the books Ubi Sunt in 2022, Who Are We Now? in 2023, and What Is Life? and What Is Intelligence? in 2025.