DeepMind Launches Institute and Working Paper on Economic Policy for AGI
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-17
DeepMind announced the DeepMind Institute, a forum for interdisciplinary, evidence-led debate on the societal and economic questions surrounding AGI. To launch it, Julian Jacobs and team released a new essay and working paper, Economic Policy for AGI. A key message: society needs to urgently invest in granular, high-frequency data collection to track AI's economic impact so policy can adjust to manage the transition.
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