Demis Hassabis

Some jobs will get disrupted, but I think new, even more valuable — perhaps more meaningful — jobs will get created.

I sometimes talk about setting up an international CERN equivalent for AI where all the best minds in the world would collaborate together and do the final steps in a very rigorous scientific way involving all of society, maybe philosophers and socia...

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.

So I think we'll solve it if we get our act together, we do this internationally, put all the best minds on it, we get going now... And I think given sufficient time with sufficient brain power — I believe in human ingenuity — I think we'll get this ...

International cooperation through forums like this summit, from the UK, Paris, Seoul, to India, is essential to ensure benefits are universal and dangers contained.

If a critical flaw or exploit is discovered in an open-source AI system, there is no centralized recall mechanism.

It may be a good thing that [AI development is] not as fast. There's a whole bunch of other things that we need to think through with this technology [...] We don't have a lot of time to sort out before we get to [Artificial General Intelligence].

It's very important that we have international summits like this to discuss how to make sure the opportunities benefit the whole world and how we can mitigate the risks. [...] It is becoming an incredibly important convening point for international d...

Maybe it would be good to have a slightly slower pace, so that we can get this right societally. [...] Asked whether he would advocate for a pause in AI development if every company and country joined in, Hassabis responded: "I think so." He added th...

The risk from the technology itself, as it becomes more autonomous, more agent-based, is what's going to happen over the next few years. We have to make sure we keep control of the systems, that they're aligned with our values, that they're doing wha...

Scott Pelley: But is self-awareness a goal of yours? Demis Hassabis: Not explicitly. But it may happen implicitly. These systems might acquire some feeling of self-awareness. That is possible. I think it's important for these systems to understand y...

Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world, and obviously we’re trying to play our part in that, then we should be in a world of what I sometimes call radical abundance. [...] It should lead to incredible productivity and therefore ...

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.

Yeah, I think those systems would be right on the boundary. So I think most emergent systems, cellular automata, things like that could be model-able by a classical system. You just sort of do a forward simulation of it and it’d probably be efficient...

I would advocate for a kind of CERN for AGI, and by that, I mean a kind of international research-focused high-end collaboration on the frontiers of AGI development to try and make that as safe as possible. You would also have to pair it with a kind...

[Asked whether he would advocate for a pause if every other company and every other country also paused:] I think so. [...] it kind of needs international collaboration, because even if one company or even one nation or even the West decided to do th...

We must take the risks of AI as seriously as other major global challenges, like climate change. It took the international community too long to coordinate an effective global response to this, and we’re living with the consequences of that now. We c...

Then what I’d like to see eventually is an equivalent of a CERN for AI safety that does research into that – but internationally. And then maybe there’s some kind of equivalent one day of the IAEA, which actually audits these things.