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Demis Hassabis

Chief Scientist of Alphabet & Chair of Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc. (Google)

Search every verified Demis Hassabis interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Demis Hassabis, Chief Scientist of Alphabet and Chair of Google DeepMind, has recently discussed the development and risks of artificial intelligence in several public appearances. In an October 2026 interview, he reflected on Google's decision not to release an early language model, describing it as "probably the wrong decision" in retrospect, while noting that early models were flawed and prone to errors. He also discussed the application of AI to scientific problems such as protein folding, describing it as a method for navigating vast solution spaces more intelligently than brute-force search. At a June 2025 event hosted by King Charles, Hassabis stated that the chance of "something bad accidentally happening" with AI is "definitely non zero," while expressing confidence that risks could be addressed collectively. In September 2026, he delivered a lecture proposing a framework for frontier AI regulation, suggesting a standards body modeled on a public-private partnership similar to FINRA, with voluntary pre-release model reviews that could become mandatory. He also described AGI as potentially having "10x the impact of the industrial revolution at 10x the speed," and advocated for educational reform, arguing that current school systems cater primarily to average students and need updating.

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“I think it's sort of doubly tricky to think about putting out a bot that uh you know 20% of the time gives you the wrong information. And so that's there's I think there's a clear issue there for uh uh for a company like Google whereas obviously a startup um especially someone with someone like Sam leading it you know it's like go for it you know you only live once yolo it and it's fine right and then and and the thi”

“I think something pretty radical has to happen with education. That's the first thing. Maybe it needed to anyway. We're talking about a 50-year-old post-war system that I think needs updating anyway. The problem with the school systems today is it caters for the sort of medium. So if you're not in that then you're sort of not really catered for; the smart kids, the talented kids are not pushed enough and then they ge”

“I think it's going to be one of the most profound technologies humanity will ever invent. And I think it will be a revolution in the way that electricity was. Telephone, we've heard the internet, mobile, I think it'll be at least as big but perhaps bigger than all of those. Maybe something like 10 times the impact of the industrial revolution and the additional challenge is that it's probably going to happen 10 times”

“At the moment, we are locked in an extremely intense multi-layered commercial and geopolitical race. While these competitive dynamics fuel rapid progress and accelerate the incredible upsides, advances on the frontier are outpacing our understanding of the technology. Nobody in the world knows for sure what is going to happen from here, and even the experts disagree. When there is a large degree of uncertainty and th”

“And my conjecture is that actually classical Turing machines, basically classical machines that these types of AI systems are built on, can do a lot more than we previously gave them credit for. And if you think about AlphaFold protein folding, you know, proteins are quantum systems, you know, they operate at the atomic scale and one might think you need quantum simulations to actually be able to find the structures ”

“I think instead, you know, we should be trying to use uh uh uh the scientific method and approach it with a kind of humility and respect that this kind of technology deserves. And you know, not we we don't know a lot of things. There are a lot of unknowns around how this technology is going to develop. It's so new. Um um and I think with exceptional sort of care and foresight we can get all the benefits uh and minimi”

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