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Shane Legg

Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, DeepMind

Search every verified Shane Legg interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, has continued to discuss the development and implications of artificial general intelligence (AGI). In a December 2025 podcast appearance, he outlined a framework for AGI levels, from minimal to full AGI, and discussed associated timelines. He stated that AGI will bring a "massive transformation" that will structurally change the economy and society, and he emphasized the need to consider how to structure this new world. He also noted that AI systems are becoming more agentic and will increasingly be embodied in robotics. In earlier appearances, Legg has discussed his long-standing predictions about AGI timelines. He has stated that his modal expectation for human-level AI was 2025, with an expected value of 2028, a view he formed after reading Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines." He has also said he estimates a 50% chance of AGI arriving by 2028. Legg has also addressed AI safety, arguing that a safe AGI should be "at least as ethical and human value aligned as a competent, highly ethical person." He has proposed that building such a system requires a human-level world model, good reasoning, and a clear specification of values and ethics, and he has stated that capabilities and safety are "very, very intertwined."

Recent appearances

  • 「AGIは2年以内に50%の確率」Google DeepMind 創業者らが語るAGIの未来と人類の選択｜米中AI覇権と日本の勝ち筋

    June 18, 2026 · 📺 GLOBIS学び放題×知見録

    ※本セッションの使用言語は英語です。YouTube画面上の設定画面（歯車マーク）から、自動翻訳の字幕機能をご利用ください。 G1サミット2026 第3部分科会 AI 「フロンティアAI最前線から学ぶAGI時代の日本の可能性＜使用言語：英語＞」Shane Gu×Shane Legg輝×村上明子×堀義人 （2026年3月20日／北海道ルスツリゾート） 汎用人工知能（AGI）の到来が現実味を帯びる中、世界のイノベーションの震源地では今何が起きているのか。DeepMindの共同創業者やGoogleにおけるAI開発の最前線からはどんな未来が見えており、そこで日本はどんな立ち位置で存在しうるのか。世界のAIの最前線を切り拓く研究者から学び、日本の具体的な戦略と可能性を探る。 【登壇者】※肩書は登壇当時のもの Shane Gu（Google DeepMind Senior Staff Research Scientist） Shane Legg（Google DeepMind Co-Founder & Chief AGI Scientist） 村上明子（AIセーフティ・インスティテュート 所長／SOMPOホールディングス株式会社 執行役員常務 グループChief Data Officer／損害保険ジャパン株式会社 執行役員Chief Data Officer データドリブン経営推進部長）…

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  • An exclusive from the man who invented AGI

    January 17, 2026 · 📺 AI из первых уст

    Shane Legg is the man who coined the term "AGI" back when it was considered "for madmen." The co-founder of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of artificial general intelligence shares an exclusive prediction: a 50/50 chance of achieving minimal AGI by 2028, and full-blown AGI within a decade. He explains why human intelligence is definitely not the ceiling of what's possible (compare a 20-watt brain with a 200-megawatt data center), how to make superintelligence "super-ethical," and why ordinary people understand what's happening better than experts. Legg warns: we're at the inflection point…

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  • The arrival of AGI | Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)

    December 11, 2025 · 📺 Google DeepMind and Hannah Fry

    Shane Legg, Chief AGI Scientist and co-founder of Google DeepMind, has been talking about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for more than a decade. So what’s changed? According to Shane, now is the time to take it seriously. In this episode, Shane walks host Hannah Fry through his AGI framework, breaking down the levels from minimal AGI to full AGI, and his timelines for each. They discuss the economic and societal shifts AGI will bring, the potential impact on work, and the extraordinary possibilities for human flourishing. Timecodes 00:00 Coming up 00:41 Intro 13:43 Defining artific…

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  • Shane Legg - System Two Safety

    February 07, 2024 · 📺 FAR․AI

    Shane Legg - "System Two Safety." This presentation was delivered at the New Orleans Alignment Workshop, December 2023. The Alignment Workshop is a series of events convening top ML researchers from industry and academia to discuss and debate topics related to AI alignment. The goal is to enable researchers to better understand potential risks from advanced AI, and strategies for solving them. If you're a machine learning researcher interested in attending future workshops, please fill out the following expression of interest form to get notified about future events: https://airtable.com/…

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  • AGI by 2028 - Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder)

    December 21, 2023 · 📺 Dwarkesh Patel

    Full Episode:    • Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, ...   Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Ru2... Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/shane... Follow me on Twitter:   / dwarkesh_sp  

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  • The Transformative Potential of AGI — and When It Might Arrive | Shane Legg and Chris Anderson | TED

    December 07, 2023 · 📺 TED

    As the cofounder of Google DeepMind, Shane Legg is driving one of the greatest transformations in history: the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). He envisions a system with human-like intelligence that would be exponentially smarter than today's AI, with limitless possibilities and applications. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Legg explores the evolution of AGI, what the world might look like when it arrives — and how to ensure it's built safely and ethically. If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spread…

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  • Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures

    October 26, 2023 · 📺 Dwarkesh Patel

    I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder & Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind! We discuss: * Why he expects AGI ...

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  • The road to AGI

    February 14, 2022 · 📺 Google DeepMind

    Interviewees: DeepMind's Shane Legg, Doina Precup, Dave Silver & Jackson Broshear Credits Presenter: Hannah Fry Series ...

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  • Measuring machine intelligence - Shane Legg, Singularity Summit 2010

    March 07, 2018 · 📺 Google DeepMind

    Alright guys our next speaker today which I'm sure you're all very excited to hear is Shane leg. He's from New Zealand where he ...

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  • Shane Legg From Google DeepMind The Existential Threat of AI

    February 01, 2018 · 📺 Daniel Yarmoluk

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  • DeepMind's Shane Legg - Machine Super Intelligence

    August 25, 2017 · 📺 The Artificial Intelligence Channel

    Shane Legg is a machine learning researcher and founder of DeepMind Technologies, acquired by Google in 2014. This lecture took place in 2009, a few months before the founding of DeepMind.

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  • Shane Legg From Google DeepMind - The Existential Threat of AI

    August 21, 2017 · 📺 The Artificial Intelligence Channel

    Link to the full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFgJHzliy94.

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