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)

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

Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later in September, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic 'box' to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (Google DeepMind)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-16

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