Demis Hassabis on View From The Top
An AI@GSB Special: Demis Hassabis Thinks We’re in the ‘Foothills of the Singularity’
This is largely familiar singularity, regulation, and student-advice material, without a usable substantive explanation of the headline-making claim. Skip unless you specifically want a brief, optimistic commencement-style message.
Right? And the world's sort of your oyster really. And I kind of envy some of you now because you're the first generation that will be AI native, just like my generation was computer and Internet native. And it's going to be in your hands in the end. The students in the room like how that future world gets built. And I think it's a very exciting time if you think about it in the right way for from the right angle and with a lot of imagination and creativity. But I think that's always been true and maybe it's more so now in changes of periods of enormous change like this that accentuates it.
Demis Hassabis argues that AGI may arrive within a few years and that society is approaching a profoundly transformative era whose direction is still undecided. He calls for broad social preparation, adaptive regulation, equitable distribution of benefits, and greater student agency in shaping an AI-native future.