Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
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Google DeepMind launched an institute on September 17 to discuss the future of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a form of AI that can solve many different types of problems independently.
The institute is led by DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, Google executive James Manyika, and Demis Hassabis, and aims to gather different perspectives from Google, DeepMind, and researchers worldwide. The first four essays cover issues including economic policy, how to understand AI model reasoning step by step, principles for human flourishing, and how to evaluate the most advanced AI systems. One essay by safety researchers Rohin Shah and Anca Dragan argues that transparency in AI models can be maintained even as they become more powerful. Demis Hassabis proposes a U.S.-led standards body to review the most advanced AI models before release, initially on a voluntary basis and later as a requirement.
The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI.
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