# DeepMind A British artificial intelligence research laboratory, now a subsidiary of Alphabet (Google's parent company). DeepMind's work on reinforcement learning and protein structure prediction represents the contemporary extension of AI research traditions that trace, through multiple lineages, to foundational work at institutions including [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]]. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]] and [[articles/A History of Machine Intelligence|A History of Machine Intelligence]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “[I've] been thinking a lot about whether it's possible to stop humanity from developing AI. I think the answer is almost definitely not. If it's going to happen anyway, it seems like it would be good for someone other than Google to do it first.” > **— Sam Altman**, *2015 email quoted on The Ezra Klein Show* [[reminders/AI Control/OpenAI Began With the Logic That Someone Other Than Google Should Build AI First by Sam Altman|OpenAI Began With the Logic That Someone Other Than Google Should Build AI First by Sam Altman]] > “OpenAI was founded because its co-founders thought Google DeepMind would be reckless. Anthropic was formed by OpenAI employees who thought OpenAI had become reckless. xAI was formed because Elon Musk thought OpenAI and Anthropic were dangerously woke. The United States is racing forward in part because it is worried about what happens if China gets to self-improving AI first. The result is a tragic collective-action problem. The AIs we are building are not safe, but the CEOs and politicians fear that the other companies and countries building AI are even less concerned with safety and ethics than we are.” > **— Ezra Klein**, *The Ezra Klein Show, September 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/AI Development Is Trapped in a Collective-Action Race by Ezra Klein|AI Development Is Trapped in a Collective-Action Race by Ezra Klein]]