Shane Legg
Co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind; co-leads the DeepMind Institute · as of 2026-10-04 · source
DeepMind co-founder who popularized the term AGI and has long predicted it around 2028.
News mentioning Shane Legg (3)
- Google DeepMind and collaborators propose a hierarchical Bayesian framework for assessing AI consciousness; LLM credences range from <0.01 to ~0.8 ★★★
On Sept 28, 2026 a team led by Google DeepMind's Shamil Chandaria, with co-authors including Anil Seth, Murray Shanahan, Henry Shevlin, Chris Frith and DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, posted "From cacophony to hierarchy" (arXiv 2609.35618). It places the major theories of consciousness on a…
- Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to broaden the AGI debate; Hassabis proposes a frontier-AI standards body ★★★
On 17 Sept 2026 Google and Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute (led by Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis) with four essays on AGI economics, keeping model reasoning human-readable, human flourishing and frontier-model evaluation. Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body…
- 'Pacing the Frontier': 1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development ★★★★
On 2026-07-28, more than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta (1,386 by late September), including Dario Amodei, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark and Ilya Sutskever, signed "Pacing the Frontier". The statement asks the US government to support an…
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- Hassabis announces the DeepMind Institute original ↗ Demis Hassabis @demishassabis · x · 2026-09-16
Launch announcement of Google DeepMind's AGI think-tank/essay platform led by Hassabis, Shane Legg and James Manyika. - Introducing the DeepMind Institute original ↗ Shane Legg @ShaneLegg · x-article · 2026-09-16
Cited as a source by: 2026-09-17-deepmind-institute - Pacing the Frontier — a statement from employees of frontier AI companies original ↗ Pacing the Frontier (frontier-lab employees) · other · 2026-07-28
Over 1,100 (now 1,386) OpenAI/Anthropic/GDM/Meta employees, incl. Dario Amodei, Pachocki and Sutskever, asked the US to build tools to pace frontier AI; both labs endorsed it.
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