Demis Hassabis

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. (2023) source Unverified

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. (2025) source Unverified

Maybe. I mean, maybe we have to evolve to something else that's better, I don’t know. Like, there's some problems with democracy too. It's not a panacea by any means. I think it was Churchill who said that it's the least-worst form of government, something like that. Maybe there's something better. I can tell you what's going to happen technologically. I think if we do this right, we should end up with radical abundance. If we fix a few of the root-node problems, as I call them. And then there's this political philosophy question. I think that is one of the things people are underestimating. I think we're going to need a new philosophy of how to live. (2025) source Unverified

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 prosperity for society. Of course, we’ve got to make sure it gets distributed fairly, but that’s more of a political question. And if it is, we should be in an amazing world of abundance for maybe the first time in human history, where things don’t have to be zero sum. And if that works, we should be travelling to the stars, really. (2025) source Unverified

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 enough. Of course there’s the question of things like chaotic systems where the initial conditions really matter and then you get to some uncorrelated end state. Now those could be difficult to model. So I think these are kind of the open questions, but I think when you step back and look at what we’ve done with the systems and the problems that we’ve solved, and then you look at things like Veo 3 on video generation sort of rendering physics and lighting and things like that, really core fundamental things in physics, it’s pretty interesting. I think it’s telling us something quite fundamental about how the universe is structured in my opinion. So in a way that’s what I want to build AGI for is to help us as scientists answer these questions like P equals NP. source Unverified