Demis Hassabis

What I’d like to see eventually is an equivalent of a CERN for AI safety that does research into that – but internationally. Verified source

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. AI Verified source (2025)

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... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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... more Unverified source (2025)

International cooperation through forums like this summit, from the UK, Paris, Seoul, to India, is essential to ensure benefits are universal and dangers contained. Unverified source (2026)

At this point, I think we're at a threshold moment where AGI, artificial general intelligence, is on the horizon, maybe in the next five to eight years. [...] I think it's going to be something like 10 times the impact of the Industrial Revolution, b... more Unverified source (2026)

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 ... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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 ... more AI Verified source (2025)