Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind is a leading AI research laboratory owned by Alphabet Inc. In 2023, Google Brain and DeepMind merged to form Google DeepMind. The lab has made significant contributions to both AI capabilities and safety research.
Overview
DeepMind was founded with the mission of "solving intelligence" and using it to benefit humanity. The organization has produced landmark AI systems including AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Gemini. They maintain active safety and alignment research programs alongside capabilities work.
Safety Research
Alignment Team
DeepMind's alignment team works on ensuring AI systems behave as intended. Key research areas include scalable oversight, reward modeling, and debate as an alignment strategy.
Interpretability
The lab has a dedicated interpretability team including researchers like Neel Nanda working on mechanistic interpretability of neural networks.
Notable Contributions
- AlphaGo - First AI to defeat world champion in Go
- AlphaFold - Protein structure prediction (Nobel Prize 2024)
- Gemini - Multimodal AI model series
- Influential research on RLHF
- Safety evaluations and red-teaming frameworks
Key People
- Demis Hassabis - CEO
- Shane Legg - Chief AGI Scientist (coined term "AGI")
- Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability
- Rohin Shah - Alignment researcher