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Safety controls can't keep pace with AI deployment, DeepMind co-founder warns

9/16/2026

The constraint running through every serious debate about artificial general intelligence is a sequencing problem: capability research has historically moved faster than the safety evaluation infrastructure meant to govern what gets released.

Shane Legg, a co-founder of DeepMind, has formalized that concern into an institution.

Legg has launched a new institute dedicated to exploring the deployment of artificial general intelligence, adding his weight to growing calls for the industry to slow down.

His warning is blunt: AI development must not outrun its safety controls.

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