AI must not outrun safety controls, DeepMind co-founder warns

Shane Legg launches new institute to explore deployment of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown

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AI must not outrun safety controls, DeepMind co-founder warns

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Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (Financial Times) ft.com
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