Google DeepMind launches institute to study AGI's big questions

Google DeepMind founded the DeepMind Institute (DMI), an interdisciplinary research platform focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI). Led by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and James Manyika, it draws on experts from the arts, humanities, and policy alongside technologists to study safety, governance, and control risks.

Why it matters: A frontier lab formally institutionalizing non-technical expertise around AGI risk suggests the field is treating governance and control questions as core research problems rather than PR add-ons, consistent with recent moves from OpenAI and Anthropic to build out independent safety evaluation.