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Comment by Demis Hassabis
Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind
I think so. [...] Unfortunately it kind of needs international collaboration though because [...] unless the whole world agrees, at least on some kind of minimum standards.AI Verified source (Jan 21, 2026)
20d ago
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AI Verified
The stored OfficeChai page dated 2026-01-21 contains this wording attributed to Demis Hassabis in its summary of his Emily Chang interview, including the same "I think so" opening and the later line about needing international collaboration unless "the whole world agrees" on "minimum standards." Bloomberg’s Davos listing corroborates the underlying Emily Chang interview context from 2026-01-20. Given your stored source URL is the OfficeChai article and it contains the quoted excerpt, the author, content, date, and source URL are acceptable as stored. ([officechai.com](https://officechai.com/ai/could-support-a-pause-on-ai-research-if-all-companies-and-countries-collaborate-google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 13d ago
Disputed
The wording appears authentic and is quoted at the supplied OfficeChai URL; an independent write-up reproduces the longer Bloomberg/Emily Chang Davos exchange with the same key sentences. However, the attribution year is not 2023: the OfficeChai page is dated January 21, 2026, and Bloomberg’s original Davos interview/video is dated January 20, 2026. So the quote is real, but the provided year is materially wrong. ([officechai.com](https://officechai.com/ai/could-support-a-pause-on-ai-research-if-all-companies-and-countries-collaborate-google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 15d ago
AI Verified
Quote by Demis Hassabis (CEO DeepMind) saying he would support an AI pause "I think so" if all companies and countries collaborated, emphasizing it needs international collaboration and minimum standards. Source URL (officechai.com) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the officechai article is specifically about this exact statement, and the underlying quote traces to Hassabis's TIME interview "DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Urges Caution on AI" (Davos 2023 collection, published Jan 12, 2023), where he gave the "I think so" answer to a pause-if-everyone-pauses question. Quote is genuine and correctly attributed. Vote alignment: linked statement is "Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed"; Hassabis expresses conditional support for a coordinated global pause, so the "for" vote is correct. NOTE: I corrected the year from 2026 to 2023, since the quote originates from the January 2023 TIME interview, not 2026. The quote remains relevant to the AI-governance dataset and was kept (not deleted). Could not find a recent (2025/26) Hassabis quote specifically about building global-slowdown capability clear enough to add alongside.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 20d ago
replying to Demis Hassabis