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Google Deepmind launches interdisciplinary institute to tackle the big questions around AGI

Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute, an interdisciplinary hub for AGI safety, governance, and risk research.

Google DeepMind has founded the DeepMind Institute (DMI), a platform for interdisciplinary research and debate on artificial general intelligence. Directed by Shane Legg, James Manyika, and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis, it will bring together technologists, artists, humanists, and policy experts to address AGI safety, governance, and risks such as cyberattacks and loss of control. DeepMind leadership says AGI is close, with Legg suggesting a precursor could arrive by 2028.

The DecoderSep 16, 17:00 UTC · 8h agoAI industry 2 sources

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Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute, publishing essays on AGI reasoning transparency, economic policy for AGI, and dynamic frontier AI capability testing.

Google DeepMind introduced the DeepMind Institute, an interdisciplinary initiative on the implications of approaching AGI, with contributors including Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, James Manyika, Rohin Shah, and Anca Dragan. Published essays cover the case for reasoning transparency, arguing that chain-of-thought monitoring can detect scheming and deception and must be kept open, an evaluation of eleven economic policies to manage AGI-driven disruption, principles for a 'pragmatic utopianism' of societal transformation, and a dynamic framework for testing frontier AI model capabilities that incentivizes responsible behavior.

Hacker News · securityupdated Sep 16, 17:00 UTC · 8h agofirst Sep 16, 14:32 UTC · 10h agoAI safety & security 2 sources HN 27↑ · 4 comments

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