Demis Hassabis on Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Demis Hassabis on AGI, Robots Scale Production, and Elon’s $1T Mars-Shot Comp | EP #253
This is among the most novel appearances in the corpus, spanning resurrection through technology, GLP-1-driven longevity, post-humanoid robotics, and a concrete 2028 compute crunch. Several claims diverge sharply from Hassabis’s positions elsewhere—especially that general intelligence was effectively discovered by 2020—so speaker attribution should be verified before publication.
>> I I think there's there's a broader program here that we're just seeing the very beginning of it. If you look back at the There were strains I've spoken about this on the pod in the past of Russian Cosmism. The Russian Cosmist philosophers like Tsiolkovsky spoke about humanity's common task of taking every human who's ever lived and finding ways using technology to bring them back to life. And I think starting with extinct species is just a special case of what technology I I do think will enable us to do, which is to reach back into our past light cone, take every species that's ever lived, bring it back in whatever form, even
Demis Hassabis contributes substantive perspectives on robot scaling, AI's near-term infrastructure constraints, the AI arms race, AGI, longevity medicine, and de-extinction. His strongest standalone exchanges combine concrete forecasts with broader claims about how advanced AI and biotechnology could reshape science, markets, and civilization.