Shane Legg, one of the three co-founders of Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind, warned on Wednesday that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence must not outpace the safety controls designed to govern it, as he announced the launch of the DeepMind Institute, a…
Shane Legg, chief AGI scientist at Google DeepMind, launched the DeepMind Institute to make the lab's technical AGI research accessible to the public, the Financial Times reported.ft
The warning comes as AI agents increasingly write software and assist in building other AI systems, intensifying concerns about recursive self-improvement outrunning safeguards.reuters
The institute arrives amid a major leadership shake-up at DeepMind, with Demis Hassabis moving to a chairman role and a new operational chief taking over day-to-day management.studioglobal