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Shane Legg — Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder at Google DeepMind

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CreatedMay 11, 2026, 6:51 AM
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sourceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg
notesCo-founder of DeepMind. PhD under Marcus Hutter at IDSIA (2008). Author of Machine Super Intelligence thesis; 50%-by-2028 AGI median estimate.

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