Demis Hassabis on Radio Davos
The day after AGI: Two 'rock stars' of AI on what it will mean for humanity
This is a broad, substantive discussion, but nearly all of Hassabis’s material overlaps with other supplied appearances, including close recaps of this same exchange. Most fans can skip it unless they want the primary conversation rather than a summary.
>> Um I think there's definitely a risk. I think um I think that's kind of reasonable. there's fear and there's worries about these things like jobs and livelihoods. Um I think there's a couple of things that I mean it's going to be very complicated the next few years I think geopolitically but also the various factors here like we want to and we're trying to do this with AlphaFold and our science work and isomorphic our spinout companies solve all disease cure diseases come up with new energy sources. I think as a society it's clear we'd want that. I think maybe the balance of what the industry is doing is not enough balance towards those types of activities. I think we should have a lot more examples. I know Dario agris of like alpha fold like things that help sort of unequivocal good in the world and I think actually it's incumbent on
Demis Hassabis presents AGI as a potentially transformative scientific tool whose arrival remains uncertain but could be accelerated by AI-assisted development. He balances optimism about medicine, science, and human ingenuity with urgent warnings about autonomy, misuse, labor disruption, geopolitical competition, and the need for coordination and safety work.