The focus includes understanding economic shifts as AI systems grow more capable and leading research on post-AGI economics, including scarcity, power, and resource distribution in an AI-shaped world.

Ethical considerations are central, underscoring AI safety, governance, and ethics as DeepMind emphasizes responsible AI development.

DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework for AGI is part of a strategy to embed economic safeguards and steer developments toward abundant outcomes while mitigating risks as AI approaches human-level intelligence.

Hassabis advocates for an international CERN-like council of experts—spanning philosophers, social scientists, writers, and technologists—to oversee AGI development and guide governance.

DeepMind is actively hiring a Senior AI Economist to study how advanced AI could reshape the global economy, wealth distribution, and concepts of scarcity in a post-AGI world.

The role will build economic simulations and models to explore AGI futures and examine how AGI might alter economics and power distribution across society.

The initiative reflects a broader industry debate on AI’s economic impact, balancing optimistic post-scarcity views with warnings about job displacement, as echoed in discussions on X and coverage by Business Insider and The Times of India.

Reporting references Yahoo Finance and Business Insider, with statements from Hassabis at Davos and in August illustrating broader economic implications of AGI.

Hassabis has spoken about AI’s potential to transform money, capitalism, and corporate structures, and advocates for a diverse, international body to oversee AI deployment.

Hassabis has suggested AGI could outsmart humans within five to ten years, with possibilities to replace jobs while curing diseases and reshaping civilization, as discussed in interviews highlighted by Fortune.

The hiring aligns with a broader tech industry trend of preparing for an AI-driven economic shift, with other leaders noting DeepMind’s proactive stance ahead of AGI timelines.

This search for post-AGI insights mirrors Hassabis’s vision of radical abundance and the need for governance to guide AI safely, including proposals for a global institute of experts.