Google DeepMind's AGI societal research institute

Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute (DMI), a platform for researchers inside and outside the company to publish and debate how increasingly capable AI should be built, governed, and used. The institute is led by Shane Legg as Managing Director, Demis Hassabis as co-founder and chair, and James Manyika as Google's president of research, labs, technology, and society. It debuted with four inaugural essays covering AGI safety, global governance, reasoning transparency, economic policies including Universal Basic Capital, and human flourishing. The platform is open to contributors from Google, DeepMind, and the broader scientific community, and is designed to make complex academic research on AGI accessible to the public.