The DeepMind Institute
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.
- DeepMind Institute launched with Shane Legg, James Manyika, and Demis Hassabis involved
- Essay argues chain-of-thought access enables monitoring models for scheming and deception
- Another essay evaluates eleven policies to manage AGI economic disruption
- A dynamic capability-testing framework for frontier AI models is proposed
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Bold thinking on AGI from the lab that pioneered the field.
Introducing the DeepMind Institute
As we near AGI, we urgently need interdisciplinary thinking to better understand its profound implications for humanity.
Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis
The case for reasoning transparency
Reading an AI’s ‘chain of thought’ gives us a window into its reasoning, which we can monitor for scheming and deception. We must strive to keep that window open.
Rohin Shah and Anca Dragan
Economic policy for AGI
This essay evaluates eleven policies societies could implement to manage the potential economic disruption arising from increasingly advanced and pervasive AI.
Julian Jacobs and Alex Imas
Principles for a new utopianism
If AGI is to transform society, we must decide what transformations we want. Learning from the turmoil of the twentieth century, this essay proposes a pragmatic utopianism of humility and hope.
Stephen Cave
A framework for frontier AI and the dawning of a new age
A dynamic approach to testing frontier AI model capabilities that supports innovation and incentivizes responsible behavior. This essay first appeared on X.
Demis Hassabis
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