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Overview
Shane Legg is co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at google-deepmind. He serves as Managing Editor of the deepmind-institute, launched September 2026.
Recent Developments
- 2026-09-17: Launched DeepMind Institute with demis-hassabis and james-manyika (deepmind-institute)
- Warned AI capabilities must not outpace safety controls (FT/Reuters)
- Endorsed dario-amodei’s “pace not pause” frontier release proposal as “worth considering”
- Maintains 50% forecast for “minimal” artificial-general-intelligence by 2028
- Called September 2026 AGI arrival claims by Nvidia and OpenAI executives premature