Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warned that rapidly advancing AI must not outpace safety controls as he launched the DeepMind Institute to explore AGI deployment, the Financial Times reported.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow but not pause frontier model releases was “interesting directionally” and “worth considering,” Legg said.
He called it premature to declare AGI achieved despite recent claims by Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI executives. Legg remains “comfortable” with his forecast of a 50% chance of “minimal” AGI by 2028.
The DeepMind Institute aims to broaden public discussion of AGI, which Google DeepMind defines as a system showing all capabilities of the human mind.