AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind: A Summary of Recent Work (July 2026)

Cross-posted from our new SubstackIt’s been nearly two years since our last major update here in August 2024 and we wanted to share another recap of our recent work with the AGI safety community. Things have changed a lot since then. We are now fully in the midgame, and focus more on landing things in production.Who are we?We are the AGI Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT), the main group at Google DeepMind working directly on technical approaches to existential risk from AI systems. Last year we p...