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Since DeepMind’s foundation in 2010, the constrained yet rich worlds of games have played a critical role in understanding intelligence. They have driven some of our biggest AI breakthroughs, from mastering Atari to helping solve protein structure prediction – and they are still at the heart of what we do.

When I was asked to support James Bacon in his planned presentation about the depiction of the Holocaust in comic books during EuroCon/MetropolCon in July 2026 in Berlin, I wondered what my role could possibly be. Yes, I have a modest, though still growing, collection of comics, and yes, I am a political scientist by…