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The third Alphabet position in five days — On Wednesday September 16, 2026, DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg stood up a new institute to debate AGI, four days after Demis Hassabis endorsed Anthropic's pace-the-frontier essay and forty-eight hours after Google engineering opened Claude Opus 5 to every internal engineer
Shane Legg told the FT that capabilities cannot outrun safety — and called Amodei's slow-the-frontier essay only "interesting directionally." A debate platform, not an endorsement. Alphabet's third position in five days.
Sep 17, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Sep 17, 2026