Google DeepMind Launches the DeepMind Institute, an Essay Platform on AGI Run by Legg, Hassabis and Manyika

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Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute on September 16 as a publishing forum for AGI essays, with Shane Legg as managing editor and Demis Hassabis and James Manyika as co-directors. It opened with four pieces covering economic policy for AGI, model reasoning transparency, global access and human flourishing, and carries an explicit disclaimer that the work is not Google's official view. Legg separately told the FT that Dario Amodei's call to slow releases is 'worth considering' and that it is too early to say AGI has arrived, which puts the lab's chief AGI scientist publicly closer to a rival CEO's pacing argument than to his own employer's shipping cadence.