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

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... more 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)

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... more Unverified source (2026)

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... more Unverified source (2026)

If a critical flaw or exploit is discovered in an open-source AI system, there is no centralized recall mechanism. Unverified source (2026)

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)