Google DeepMind launched an essay platform on AGI, and its chief AGI scientist said Amodei's slowdown call is "worth considering."

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