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Shane Legg
@ShaneLegg
Chief AGI Scientist & Co-Founder, Google DeepMind Director and Managing Editor, DeepMind Institute Work: Personal:
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It is important to remember when people say “this is what they took from you”, that it’s this. This is what they took from you:
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Stuff is happening quite fast. When asked in September 2025, the best superforecasters put the chance of AI resolving a Millennium Problem by September 2026 at 1.7% and (the more optimistic) industry expert put the chance at 4.6% They also greatly underestimated AI Lab revenue.
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Who owns the benefits of AI? In this essay I co-authored with @IasonGabriel for the DeepMind Institute, we offer four moral arguments — grounded in rights, reciprocity, fairness, and beneficence — that together make the philosophical case that the benefits of AI should reach everyone. Read the piece here and let us know what you think:
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Who should benefit from advanced AI—and why? In a new essay for the DeepMind Institute, out today, @Dr_Atoosa and I make the case for the Global View: People everywhere have a moral claim to share in the benefits created by this technology.
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The popular narrative of AGI often centers on a single, isolated super-intelligence. My colleagues James Manyika, @bratton, and I have a different model. In our new DeepMind Institute essay, we argue that the AGI transition will be a highly social event.
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Today we have 3 new DeepMind Institute essays: How can we control misbehaviour in agent swarms? How should we orchestrate complex networks of AIs and people? The case for making AGI’s benefits equitably distributed. Get them here ->
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My 2008 PhD thesis was well ahead of its time :-)
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I'm excited to announce the launch of the DeepMind Institute–a new platform dedicated to advancing state of the art research and insight about AI. We'll dig deeper into AGI, human values, societal impact and direction, in the coming months. Check out the opening essays today!
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I'm thrilled about the launch of the DeepMind Institute (DMI). As a member, I look forward to driving grounded, rigorous, and multidisciplinary philosophical and empirical conversations about our future with advanced AI. 🤩
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We're launching a new researcher-led institute to spark interdisciplinary debate on AGI and bring in a wider set of views. Very excited about this, please have a look at the first batch of essays!
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Much of what the world needs to know about where AI is heading, and what governing the transition to AGI will take, is inside frontier labs. Our new DeepMind Institute is how we will share more of it. I'm so glad to be supporting it.
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Today we are announcing the new DeepMind Institute, a forum dedicated to interdisciplinary, evidence-led debate on the societal and economic questions surrounding AGI. As part of the launch, @JulianDJacobs and I have a new essay and working paper: “Economic Policy for AGI.” 🧵1/n
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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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To whom do the fruits of advanced technological innovation belong? A new paper on this key societal question from @IasonGabriel and @Dr_Atoosa in my post-AGI research group.
Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis?  This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of technology—including AI—belong to the world in the sense that everyone is entitled to materially benefit from their distribution and use.
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What does it mean to be an ethicist and a philosopher working in an AI company? What questions do we explore – and can we affect positive change? For a deep exploration of these themes, check out a new long-read by Bobby Baird in the @guardian today...
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Life is just a meditation with more distractions.
How do we go from AGI to Superintelligence? New report discusses four potential pathways: scaling, AI paradigm shifts, recursive improvement, and ASI emerging from large-scale multi- agent collectives. Importantly, it also looks at possible frictions and bottlenecks along these pathways. Instant classic!
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Exciting news: Gemini Omni Flash is now #1# in the Video Arena (both Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video)! For Text-to-Video this is a massive +158 pt improvement over Veo 3.1 (1080p) and a large +61 pt lead over the next best model, Seedance 2.0. Congrats @GoogleDeepMind for this huge milestone!
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A great interview with our new Director of AGI Economics @alexolegimas and the economist @pawtrammell. It's a good antidote to some of the overly simplistic narratives about the economics of AGI.
Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell. There's a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer. What is the optimal way to tax and redistribute the wealth that will be generated? How should countries not in the AI supply chain index into the gains? Is there any world where inequality doesn't explode? It might seem like these questions have obvious answers, but the first thing economics teaches you is that your intuitions can often be entirely wrong. It was very helpful to chat through these things with Alex and Phil. Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or Spotify. Enjoy! 00:00:00 – Will capital share increase? 00:19:36 – Messy Middle scenario 00:25:57 – How to tax and redistribute AI wealth 00:30:02 – Why demand collapse is unlikely 00:39:26 – Human employees would be hard to integrate into the machine economy 00:43:08 – What if some humans (or AIs) value wealth accumulation intrinsically? 01:01:28 – What should developing countries do?
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Almost one week since I joined GDM’s AGI & Society teamin London. Special thanks to many but most profoundly the GDM co-founder @ShaneLegg and the unbeatable AGI & Society research lead @IasonGabriel for building an incredible interdisciplinary research team. I’m very priviledged to be a part of this effort.
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