Demis Hassabis

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Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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Location: United Kingdom

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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN

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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

2 added 1y ago
Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs

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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. Unverified source (2025)

1 added 4mo ago
Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI

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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. Unverified source (2023)

1 added 8mo ago
AI might become conscious

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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)

added 13d ago