Demis Hassabis
British computer scientist and former CEO of DeepMind TechnologiesWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
Jeff RossGUEST
And it's gonna happen much faster than it did with the, uh, spread of the internet ini- uh, initially.
Jeff RossGUEST
I think instead of it taking jobs away, which was initial concern, and I used to talk about that too because I would watch, you know, Sam Alton, Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis and, and Dario, and they'd all be talking, and Elon, you know, like, "Oh my gosh, AI's gonna steal everybody's jobs.
Jeff RossGUEST
We're all gonna be unemployed.
Jeff RossGUEST
We're gonna have a civil war.
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Politico reports that around 30 leading figures from the AI industry will attend the event in Dumfries House in Ayrshire, the headquarters of the monarch's charity, the King's Foundation.
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According to the outlet, among those to take part in the summit include NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Wan and Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis.
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Paolo Benanti, an advisor to the Vatican on AI, is also reported to be attending.
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The Pope has previously been outspoken against AI, calling for the disarming of the technology in order to protect the sanctity of life.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Preference cascade at Google.
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Especially with Demis Hassabis having been sidelined, I am rather happy that Google is now well behind.
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they put very tight limits on comms, and thus many who are speaking out felt they had to first leave in order to do so.
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As an illustration, quote, Andreas Kirsch, speaking in my personal capacity, I still work at Google DeepMind, and I also am worried that AI will kill us all, either via near-term risks or long-term risks or both.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Preference cascade at Google.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Especially with Demis Hassabis having been sidelined, I am rather happy that Google is now well behind.
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They put very tight limits on comms.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
I can personally confirm that there are a bunch of people at DeepMind who are also alarmed at the situation and who do not much speak up in public.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Preference cascade at Google.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Especially with Demis Hassabis having been sidelined, I am rather happy that Google is now well behind.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
They put very tight limits on comms, and thus many who are speaking out felt they had to first leave in order to do so.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
As an illustration,
DanHOST
Yes.
DanHOST
The lab is called DeepMind, and its founder is a scientist named Demis Hassabis, a name worth remembering because he's still running that same lab today.
DanHOST
It's the lab that will later produce AlphaFold, the AI system that cracks the decades-old problem of predicting how proteins fold, and eventually Gemini itself.
DanHOST
And Hassabis, at that exact moment in two thousand fourteen, is one of the most sought-after people in the entire industry.
DanHOST
A rival social network competes hard for the same deal, reportedly offering more money, and even a very famous entrepreneur tries to intervene from the other side.
DanHOST
What actually tips it isn't the money at all.
speaker_1HOST
So money alone lost that fight.
DanHOST
Money alone lost that fight.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Preference cascade at Google.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Especially with Demis Hassabis having been sidelined, I am rather happy that Google is now well behind.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
they put very tight limits on comms, and thus many who are speaking out felt they had to first leave in order to do so.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
As an illustration, quote, Andreas Kirsch, speaking in my personal capacity, I still work at Google DeepMind, and I also am worried that AI will kill us all, either via near-term risks or long-term risks or both.
Yasmin VossoughianHOST
Is that a fair assessment?
Jared PerlowCORRESPONDENT
So we've actually seen statements from the leading AI companies and their leaders, Dario Amadei, who's CEO of Anthropix, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Demis Hassabis, who's the leader of Google's DeepMind effort, their AI company.
Jared PerlowCORRESPONDENT
They've said in recent months that we need to slow down.
Jared PerlowCORRESPONDENT
They use this actually very fascinating word.
Georgie HealyHOST
I know who it would be.
Georgie HealyHOST
It would be Demis Hassabis, the recent CEO of DeepMind.
Georgie HealyHOST
But the hard thing is what question I would ask him.
Georgie HealyHOST
I think what I would ask him, and I would make him do a shot of truth elixir before he can answer this.
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Georgie HealyHOST
the computers and the phones that we needed to and with voice AI it is so brilliant and the more I use it the more I use it my prediction is that in 12 months in September 2027 we are going to be using voice 50% of the time at the moment maybe it's 10% I reckon that number is going to increase significantly
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Georgie HealyHOST
thing I've changed my mind about I guess in general, I change my mind about the tech bros a lot, the AI overlords, the Sam Altmans, the Mark Zuckerbergs, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amadei, Elon Musk.
Georgie HealyHOST
I find it really hard to know how I feel about any of them at any given time.
Georgie HealyHOST
I know who it would be.
Georgie HealyHOST
It would be Demis Hassabis, the recent CEO of DeepMind.
Georgie HealyHOST
But the hard thing is what question I would ask him.
Georgie HealyHOST
I think what I would ask him, and I would make him do a shot of truth elixir before he can answer this.
5 MINS LATER
Georgie HealyHOST
the computers and the phones that we needed to and with voice AI it is so brilliant and the more I use it the more I use it my prediction is that in 12 months in September 2027 we are going to be using voice 50% of the time at the moment maybe it's 10% I reckon that number is going to increase significantly
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Georgie HealyHOST
thing I've changed my mind about I guess in general, I change my mind about the tech bros a lot, the AI overlords, the Sam Altmans, the Mark Zuckerbergs, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amadei, Elon Musk.
Georgie HealyHOST
I find it really hard to know how I feel about any of them at any given time.
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