Index
Personnel: Shane Legg at Google DeepMind (Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder)
Verdictconfirmed95%
1 check · 5/18/20261 → confirmed
Our claim
entire record- Person
- Shane Legg
- Role
- Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder
- Role Type
- key-person
- Start Date
- September 2010
- Is Founder
- Yes
- Notes
- Co-founder of DeepMind. PhD under Marcus Hutter at IDSIA (2008). Author of Machine Super Intelligence thesis; 50%-by-2028 AGI median estimate.
Source evidence
1 src · 1 checkconfirmed95%Haiku 4.5 · 5/18/2026
NoteAll key fields are confirmed by the source: (1) Person: Shane Legg ✓ (2) Organization: Google DeepMind ✓ (source confirms the company is now called Google DeepMind after the 2023 merger) (3) Role: Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder ✓ (source explicitly states 'works there as the chief AGI scientist' and 'he cofounded DeepMind Technologies') (4) Start date 2010-09: The source states 'In 2010, Legg cofounded the start-up DeepMind Technologies' which confirms the 2010 founding. The source does not specify the exact month (September), but this level of precision is not contradicted—the year 2010 is confirmed and the month is unspecified rather than contradicted.
Case № DMkp000002Filed 5/18/2026Confidence 95%