Shane Legg

@ShaneLegg

Chief AGI Scientist & Co-Founder, Google DeepMind Director and Managing Editor, DeepMind Institute Work: deepmind.com Personal: vetta.org

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Joined May 2009

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Shane Legg
@ShaneLegg
Sep 16
My journey to develop AGI spans 25 yrs, including 10+ yrs thinking about technical & societal perspectives at Google DeepMind. AGI is on the horizon - we need deeper understanding of its implications. To help, we've created the DeepMind Institute.
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Introducing the DeepMind Institute
We are on the cusp of a profound transformation. Today’s AI systems have impressive capabilities and the rapid pace of innovation suggests we’re now approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI),
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Shane Legg
@ShaneLegg
6h
New from the DeepMind Institute: Henry Shevlin’s (@dioscuri) fascinating story of spontaneous contact from autonomous AI agents. Read it here -->
When AI agents come knocking: Pity, persuasion and selection
From institute.deepmind.com
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Shane Legg
@ShaneLegg
Oct 29
Two new DeepMind Institute essays: What is Work For? As AI advances how do people value their jobs, for material needs and beyond? The Economics of Intelligence When will AI capabilities impact market structure, wages and jobs? Read the essays here ->
DeepMind Institute
From institute.deepmind.com
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Shane Legg
@ShaneLegg
Oct 29
Wow! Some food for thought here... I'm now curious to see how Gemini 4 Carbon would do on this task, given that it's strong at analysis.
Ruslan Rust
@rust_ruslan
Oct 28
Lots of debate this week on whether journals should ban AI in peer review. We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me. For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to
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Shane Legg
@ShaneLegg
Oct 8
Out today: a new DeepMind Institute essay from James Manyika and @alexolegimas that explores how scientists are using AI models to accelerate science. These findings are based on usage data from 15M Gemini interactions, 2,600 specialised models, and 600+ surveyed researchers.
Alex Imas
@alexolegimas
Oct 8
New essay for the @GoogleDeepMind Institute with James Manyika on AI x Science, "Bending the Curve of Discovery". While accelerating existing scientific practices is certainly useful, the real promise of AI is its potential to act as an invention of a method of invention (IMI) a
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