It could be, like lukeprog said in October 2012, that Google doesn't even have "an AGI team".
Not that I know of, anyway. Kurzweil's team is probably part of Page's long-term AGI ambitions, but right now they're focusing on NLP (last I heard). And Deep Mind, which also has long-term AGI ambitions, has been working on game AI as an intermediate step. But then again, that kind of work is probably more relevant progress toward AGI than, say, OpenCog.
IIRC the Deep Mind folks were considering setting up an ethics board before Google acquired them, so the Google ethics board may be a carryover from that. FHI spoke to Deep Mind about safety standards a while back, so they're not totally closed to taking Friendliness seriously. I haven't spoken to the ethics board, so I don't know how serious they are.
So I know we've already seen them buying a bunch of ML and robotics companies, but now they're purchasing Shane Legg's AGI startup. This is after they've acquired Boston Dynamics, several smaller robotics and ML firms, and started their own life-extension firm.
Is it just me, or are they trying to make Accelerando or something closely related actually happen? Given that they're buying up real experts and not just "AI is inevitable" prediction geeks (who shall remain politely unnamed out of respect for their real, original expertise in machine learning), has someone had a polite word with them about not killing all humans by sheer accident?