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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.
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(2025)
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7mo ago
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Verification History
AI Verified
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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· 8d ago
replying to Demis Hassabis