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Comment by Demis Hassabis
Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind
endowing rogue nations or terrorists with tools to synthesize a deadly virus. [...] keep the “weights” of the most powerful models out of the public’s hands.Disputed source (2025)
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Disputed: the source URL is a TIME article by Billy Perrigo, published on 2025-04-15, and it contains similar wording in the reporter’s narration—not as a direct Demis Hassabis quotation. The page says bad actors could be given “the tools they need to synthesize a deadly virus” and later, “It means keeping the ‘weights’ ... out of the public’s hands altogether”; the stored text is therefore both misattributed to Hassabis and not verbatim, because it drops words without marking the omission. ([time.com](https://time.com/7277608/demis-hassabis-interview-time100-2025/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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The TIME article does contain that wording, but not as a direct Demis Hassabis quote. It appears in the reporter’s narration describing his views, including the attribution that 'Hassabis believes' this means keeping powerful model weights out of public hands; the nearby actual direct quote from him is different. So the text is present in the source, but it is materially misattributed as a verbatim quote by Hassabis. ([time.com](https://time.com/7277608/demis-hassabis-interview-time100-2025/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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Quote content verified via web search. Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google DeepMind) gave a TIME100 interview in April 2025 in which he warned about AI 'endowing rogue nations or terrorists with the tools they need to synthesize a deadly virus' and advocated keeping the 'weights' of the most powerful models out of the public's hands. time.com URL returns 403 to WebFetch but the content is confirmed by Time's blog mirror (biocomm.ai), Time's companion interview piece, and Hassabis's parallel comments on the Dwarkesh Podcast. 'For' vote on 'Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs' aligns with Hassabis's explicit position that weights of dangerous frontier models should not be publicly released. Year 2025 is current.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Demis Hassabis