{"id":101624,"date":"2026-04-04T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/how-pichai-killed-deepminds-independence-changed-how-hassabis-thinks-about-ai-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:36:19","slug":"how-pichai-killed-deepminds-independence-changed-how-hassabis-thinks-about-ai-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/how-pichai-killed-deepminds-independence-changed-how-hassabis-thinks-about-ai-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pichai killed DeepMind&#8217;s independence, changed how Hassabis thinks about AI safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demis Hassabis  spent over two years negotiating a semi-independent governance structure for DeepMind inside Alphabet\u2014complete with a $1 billion walk-away plan and a proposed 3-3-3 oversight board. Sundar Pichai shut it down, arguing AI was too central to Google&#8217;s core business to be spun out. The failed experiment eventually changed how Hassabis thinks about AI safety altogether.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demis Hassabis spent over two years negotiating a semi-independent governance structure for DeepMind inside Alphabet\u2014complete with a $1 billion walk-away plan and a proposed 3-3-3 oversight board. Sundar Pichai shut it down, arguing AI was too central to Google&#8217;s core business to be spun out. The failed experiment eventually changed how Hassabis thinks about AI&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/how-pichai-killed-deepminds-independence-changed-how-hassabis-thinks-about-ai-safety\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Pichai killed DeepMind&#8217;s independence, changed how Hassabis thinks about AI safety<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":101625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}