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Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind
It's worth very seriously considering and mitigating against,
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AI Verified Axios’s article page contains the exact quote text, “It’s worth very seriously considering and mitigating against,” and attributes it to Demis Hassabis (“he said”). The provided source URL resolves to that Axios article, and the page shows the publication date as Dec. 4, 2025, which matches the stored date. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/ai-hassabis-agi-risks-pdoom)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed I found the exact sentence on the Vocal page, but that page presents it as a write-up of Hassabis’ Axios AI+ Summit interview rather than a primary transcript. In Axios’ Dec. 5, 2025 coverage, the attributable wording is different: Hassabis’ p(doom) was “non-zero” and “It’s worth very seriously considering and mitigating against.” Because the supplied text adds/rephrases language such as “catastrophic scenario” and “dedicate significant resources” that I could not verify in the reliable source, this looks like a material paraphrase rather than a verbatim 2026 quote; the underlying event/source was in December 2025. ([vocal.media](https://vocal.media/journal/demis-hassabis-warns-about-ai-the-risk-of-a-catastrophic-scenario-is-not-zero)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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