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Comment by Demis Hassabis
Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind
We are standing in the foothills of the singularity. [...] I think what we're seeing is soft self-improvement, in the sense of these coding agents are making engineers much more productive.
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(2026)
8h ago
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AI Verified
Checked the quote attributed to Demis Hassabis (2026) on the statement "AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence" (vote: for). The source_url (Axios, 2026-05-26) returned HTTP 403 and could not be fetched directly, but web search confirmed the quote: multiple outlets (Axios, Semafor, The Decoder) report Hassabis describing humanity as in the "foothills of the singularity" and discussing "soft self-improvement" via coding agents making engineers more productive, said at Google I/O 2026. Author attribution correct, year (2026) current. Vote alignment is correct: the "foothills of the singularity" framing and discussion of self-improvement supports a "for" vote on AGI quickly leading to superintelligence. Source URL is a legitimate primary report of the event.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1h ago
replying to Demis Hassabis