Home Speakers Demis Hassabis Quote And actually, I would be really worried for humanity given the other challenges that we have, climate, aging, resources, all of that if I didn’t know something like AI was coming down the line.
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More from Demis Hassabis Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #475 Jul 23, 2025
And I was expecting this because more and more people are finally realizing, leaders of companies, what I’ve always known for 30 plus years now, which is that AGI is the most important technology probably that’s ever going to be invented. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #475 Jul 23, 2025
And it sort of fits with the way I think about physics in general, which is that I think information is primary, information is the most sort of fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy and matter. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #475 Jul 23, 2025
And we’re probably close, and again in the next five years to having AI systems that can materially help with those problems. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #475 Jul 23, 2025
I think there probably needs to be 10 times more effort of that than there is now as we are getting closer and closer to the AGI line. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #475 Jul 23, 2025
I think there’ll be new jobs we can’t even imagine today, just like the internet created. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs Feb 28, 2024
In terms of your question of large models, I think we’ve got to push scaling as hard as we can and that’s what we’re doing here. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs Feb 28, 2024
So I wouldn’t be surprised if we had AGI-like systems within the next decade. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs Feb 28, 2024
So my betting would be that the final AGI system will have these large multimodal models as part of the overall solution, but they probably won’t be enough on their own. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs Feb 28, 2024
The better your world model is, the more efficient your search can be.
On the same topics Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: Agent swarms, alignment, and recursive self-improvement Sep 17, 2026
And actually the models today are far beyond what was possible even six months ago. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: Agent swarms, alignment, and recursive self-improvement Sep 17, 2026
So I was like, “I don’t think we’re going to get it in 2026, probably not in 2027, maybe in 2028.” So it did happen a lot faster than I expected. Blog Look up, the curve turned #601 Sep 13, 2026
The proof AI produced runs to more than 500 pages and will not be intelligible to any human. That is a strange milestone in our history, in philosophy, in science and in mathematics that could fundamentally change our relationship with knowledge – humans won’t be able to inspect the proof, or understand it at all. Essay AI Needs Evidenced Standards, Not A Cartel (Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI?) September 2026
Within a generation, the way we discover medicine, manage power grids, and secure our national infrastructure will be completely transformed. Blog Without a theory of intelligence Aug 17, 2026
But a secondary revolution will come from using AI as a microscope: we will use it to see our own minds. Blog Without a theory of intelligence Aug 17, 2026
I’d bet we learn more about our own brains from building a thousand AIs under a real theory of intelligence than we’ve learned from a century of neuroscience. About this quote 
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