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Fortune: Google DeepMind 145-page paper predicts AGI by 2030 (Apr 2025)
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This Fortune article summarizes a major DeepMind technical report; readers should seek the primary 145-page paper for full detail, as news coverage may simplify or sensationalize specific claims about AGI timelines and risk levels.
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A Fortune article covering Google DeepMind's comprehensive 145-page technical report predicting the arrival of AGI by 2030. The paper outlines potential risks including catastrophic and existential threats to humanity, while also detailing DeepMind's safety research agenda and frameworks for managing advanced AI development.
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- •Google DeepMind's 145-page paper forecasts AGI could be achieved by 2030, representing a significant near-term timeline prediction from a leading AI lab.
- •The report explicitly acknowledges risks that AGI could 'destroy humanity,' marking a notable public warning from a major AI developer.
- •DeepMind outlines safety frameworks and alignment research directions intended to mitigate catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.
- •The paper represents one of the most detailed public disclosures by a frontier AI lab on both AGI timelines and associated existential risks.
- •The report highlights the dual challenge of advancing AI capabilities while simultaneously developing adequate safety measures before AGI is reached.
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# Google DeepMind 145-page paper predicts AGI will match human skills by 2030 — and warns of existential threats that could ‘permanently destroy humanity’
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Researchers at the AI lab have just put out a paper saying that human-like "artificial general intelligence" could arrive by 2030 and pose an existential risk to humanity.Stefan Wermuth—Bloomberg via Getty Images
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- **DeepMind’s latest 145-page safety paper** warns AGI could arrive by 2030 and cause “severe harm.” However, some experts say the concept of AGI is still too vague and the timeline too uncertain to be properly evaluated.
[Google](https://fortune.com/company/alphabet/) [DeepMind](https://fortune.com/company/deepmind/) says in [a new research paper](http://chrome-extension//efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/evaluating-potential-cybersecurity-threats-of-advanced-ai/An_Approach_to_Technical_AGI_Safety_Apr_2025.pdf) that human-level AI could plausibly arrive by 2030 and “permanently destroy humanity.”
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In a discussion of the spectrum of risks posed by Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, the paper states, “existential risks … that permanently destroy humanity are clear examples of severe harm. In between these ends of the spectrum, the question of whether a given harm is severe isn’t a matter for Google DeepMind to decide; instead it is the purview of society, guided by its collective risk tolerance and conceptualisation of harm. Given the massive potential impact of AGI, we expect that it too could pose potential risk of sever
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