DeepMind Co-Founder Shane Legg Warns AI Progress Must Not Outrun Safety Controls

Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg has warned that advances in artificial intelligence must not move faster than the controls meant to keep them safe, adding a senior voice from one of the field's leading labs to a rapidly widening debate over frontier AI pacing. The warning, made in a new interview, comes as Google DeepMind is also promoting public discussion of artificial general intelligence through a new DeepMind Institute and as rival executives argue over whether the industry should coordinate a slower path for the most capable systems.