Shane Legg
DeepMind co-founder.
Wikipedia-confirmed identity. Matched to Wikidata Q22278829 ↗ with a Wikipedia article ↗. Checked 2026-10-02.
DeepMind co-founder.
Organizations and connections
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Co-founded DeepMind
Began doctoral research at IDSIA
Doctoral co-advisor at the 2008 defense
- Shane Legg doctoral defense and advisors (June 2008) ↗Universita della Svizzera italiana
Doctoral research advisor at the 2008 defense
- Shane Legg doctoral defense and advisors (June 2008) ↗Universita della Svizzera italiana
Educated at
- Wikidata: Shane Legg ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q22278829$fa1e46af-4867-75a5-bbb6-edaf7377b4a3No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Shane Legg ↗Wikidata
Founded
- Wikidata: Google DeepMind ↗Wikidata · P112 · Statement Q15733006$0a201cc6-4d0f-648e-ec81-24e161f77aa4No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Google DeepMind ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Shane Legg ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q22278829$72d05399-42ac-4022-0ef7-8df5bc802cd2No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Shane Legg ↗Wikidata
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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- Jürgen Schmidhuber:the Father of Generative AI Without Turing Award ↗www.jazzyear.com · 2025-06-20
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
- Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ ↗www.theguardian.com · 2025-08-04
- Artificial intelligence brings its brains and money to London ↗www.theguardian.com · 2016-03-05
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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- Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991 ↗people.idsia.ch · 2019-10-05
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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- Why I Left Google DeepMind ↗turntrout.com · 2026-07-15
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
- Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ ↗www.theguardian.com · 2025-08-04
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
- The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check? ↗www.theguardian.com · 2016-02-16
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- How to think about the OpenAI Q* rumors ↗www.understandingai.org · 2023-12-08
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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- MIRI's Approach – Machine Intelligence Research Institute ↗intelligence.org · 2015-07-29
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- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Why I Left Google DeepMind ↗turntrout.com · 2026-07-15
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991 ↗people.idsia.ch · 2019-10-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
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WIKIDATA-CONFIRMED IDENTITY Wikipedia: Shane Legg ↗
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- hn · 2026-07-15Why I Left Google DeepMind ↗
- hn · 2024-11-14Interview with gwern ↗