# DeepMind Pioneer David Silver Departs, Betting LLMs Won't Reach Superintelligence

- slug: deepmind-pioneer-david-silver-departs-betting-llms-wont-reach-superintelligence
- date: 2026-03-15
- category: Artificial Intelligence

# DeepMind Pioneer David Silver Departs, Betting LLMs Won't Reach Superintelligence

The architect of AlphaGo is going his own way — and he thinks current AI is heading down the wrong path.

According to The Decoder, David Silver, one of DeepMind's first employees and the lead researcher behind A...

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