Google Launches DeepMind Institute with Essays on AGI, Transparency, Economy
thesaraharminta · x · 2026-09-16
Google launched the DeepMind Institute, led by Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis, asserting that gaps to full AGI 'will be closed soon.' First essays cover reasoning transparency (monitoring chain-of-thought for scheming), evaluation of eleven economic policies for AGI disruption, principles for pragmatic utopianism, and a dynamic framework for frontier AI capability testing.
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