Index
Personnel: Shane Legg at Google DeepMind (Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder)
Verdictconfirmed95%
1 check · 7/13/20261 → confirmed
Our claim
entire record- Person
- Shane Legg
- Role
- Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder
- Role Type
- key-person
- Start Date
- September 2010
- Is Founder
- Yes
- Notes
- Co-founder of DeepMind. PhD under Marcus Hutter at IDSIA (2008). Author of Machine Super Intelligence thesis; 50%-by-2028 AGI median estimate.
Source evidence
1 src · 1 checkconfirmed95%Haiku 4.5 · 7/13/2026
NoteAll key fields in the record are confirmed by the source: (1) Person: Shane Legg ✓ (2) Organization: Google DeepMind ✓ (confirmed as the current name after 2023 merger) (3) Role: Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder ✓ (source states 'works there as the chief AGI scientist' and 'he cofounded DeepMind Technologies') (4) Start date 2010-09: The source states 'In 2010, Legg cofounded the start-up DeepMind Technologies' which aligns with 2010-09 (September 2010 is within 2010). The source does not provide a specific month, but the year matches and the month is plausible. The record accurately represents the information in the source.
Case № DMkp000002Filed 7/13/2026Confidence 95%