Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (Financial Times)
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Financial Times : Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI — Shane Legg launches new institute to explore deployment of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown
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