DeepMind Institute: frontier labs to share more on governing the AGI transition, says Allan Dafoe
ShaneLegg · x · 2026-09-16
Sharing Shane Legg's DeepMind Institute announcement, DeepMind's Allan Dafoe argues that much of what the world needs to know about where AI is heading — and what governing the AGI transition will take — sits inside frontier labs, and the new institute is how DeepMind will share more of it. Legg's essay holds that AI is approaching AGI and that current capability gaps will close soon.
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