Google and DeepMind launch a public institute for AGI policy
Researchers from Google and Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute, a public forum for work on artificial general intelligence and society. Its first essays cover reasoning transparency, economic policy, global access, human flourishing and capability-based testing of frontier models.
Why it matters: The institute makes policy and technical-safety proposals from researchers close to a frontier-model lab publicly inspectable and open to wider debate. Its reasoning-transparency work is especially relevant to teams deciding whether internal model traces…