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Daniel De Freitas
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
Organization
Google DeepMind
Position
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
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Intelligence Briefing
Lead designer of Google's Meena/LaMDA chatbot. Co-founded Character.AI with Noam Shazeer in 2021 after Google refused to release their chatbot publicly. Returned to Google DeepMind in August 2024 as part of a $2.7B licensing deal.
Expertise
Conversational AIChatbotsLarge Language ModelsEx-Character.AI
AGI Position Assessment
Risk Level
LOW
MODERATE
HIGH
CRITICAL
Predicted AGI Timeline
Unknown
Primarily capability-focused public profile; safety posture here is inferred from frontier-model development and launch-readiness work rather than standalone public advocacy.
Safety Approach
Primarily capability-focused public profile; safety posture here is inferred from frontier-model development and launch-readiness work rather than standalone public advocacy.
Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10