Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause

The man behind Google’s AI thinks the world needs a referee. And he has drafted the rules. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release. It is modelled on Wall Str [...]

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts first AGI systems within decade

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis expects the first forms of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to emerge within five to ten years, though significant technical challenges remain.<br /> The [...]

Demis Hassabis urges people to keep studying coding and science despite rapid AI development

Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis told the New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast that coding and science are still worth learning, even as AI becomes more powerful.<br /> The article Demis Hassabis urge [...]

Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts three major AI trends for 2026

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, expects the next year to bring major progress in multimodal models, interactive video worlds, and more reliable AI agents.<br /> The article Deepmind CEO [...]

Google Deepmind loses both its CEO and chief scientist as Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean step down simultaneously

Google Deepmind is overhauling its leadership as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day management to become Alphabet's chief scientist and Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch AI [...]

Google leaders including Demis Hassabis push back on claim of uneven AI adoption internally

A viral post on X from veteran programmer and former Google engineer Steve Yegge set off a rhetorical firestorm this week, drawing sharp public rebuttals from some of Google’s most prominent AI lead [...]

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabi says world models are making progress toward AGI

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis says world models—AI systems that simulate the structure of the real world—are already making surprising progress toward general intelligence.<br /> The ar [...]

Demis Hassabis says Google DeepMind had to return to its startup roots after the Brain merger

In short: Demis Hassabis, speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings in early April 2026, described how Google DeepMind has accelerated its pace over the past two to three years by merging Goo [...]

Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while LeCun says current AI isn't intelligent

Yann LeCun says current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent. Demis Hassabis thinks humanity is already "standing in the foothills of the singularity." And Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinya [...]