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Personnel: Shane Legg at Google DeepMind (Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder)

Verdictconfirmed95%
1 check · 6/15/2026

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Our claim

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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

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confirmed95%Haiku 4.5 · 6/15/2026

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 explicitly states he is 'chief AGI scientist' and 'cofounded DeepMind Technologies'); (4) Start date 2010-09: The source states 'In 2010, Legg cofounded the start-up DeepMind Technologies' which aligns with the 2010-09 date (September 2010 is within 2010). The source does not provide a specific month, but the year matches and the month is plausible. All claims are directly supported by the Wikipedia source.

Case № DMkp000002Filed 6/15/2026Confidence 95%