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)

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

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