With the tremendous progress in AI, artificial general Intelligence (AGI) is now on the horizon. With it will come potential new paths to advance science and discovery, from understanding and curing disease to developing clean energy, to contributing to economic prosperity and humanity’s progress, in ways we could not have achieved without it. This is why my colleagues at Google DeepMind have been working towards AGI for more than a decade, and why the potential to benefit humanity continues to motivate us. At the same time, the advent of such a transformative technology presents many challenges and complexities for safety, security, the economy and jobs, and governance.
What’s clear is that AGI will be a major technological and societal shift, requiring us – and many others – to take seriously how we build and govern it, how to harness it to benefit society and advance humanity’s progress, and how to tackle the profound questions that it raises for humanity and human flourishing. These are questions that Shane, Demis and I, together with our colleagues from a variety of disciplines, have been thinking about and working on for several years.
We’ve created the DeepMind Institute to bring together the work we and others have been doing on the safe development of AGI, its beneficial uses, and implications for society. We don’t and won’t have all the answers. We hope the perspectives that emerge from our work spur discussion and debate, further research and interdisciplinary collaboration, and we hope it serves as a forum for new ideas and research on the big questions around artificial general intelligence and its implications for humanity. DMI is one of the many ways we hope to contribute to helping navigate this next era beneficially and responsibly.
We’re looking forward to advancing and discussing research, exploring questions and solutions, and learning from all of you. You can read more about DMI from me and my colleagues Shane Legg and Demis Hassabis here:
https://lnkd.in/eEwQ_FUh beneficially and responsibly
