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Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis projects that artificial general intelligence will emerge within a decade through the convergence of large multimodal world models and AlphaZero-style planning, moving beyond current text-based limitations. To ensure safety in this accelerated timeline, he advocates for a "bold and responsible" industry shift toward international collaboration, public safety policies, and the strategic use of synthetic data rather than uncontrolled open-sourcing of foundational models. This unified approach underpins the recent integration of Google Brain and DeepMind, which has already produced the Gemini system while establishing rigorous safeguards against misuse by bad actors and nation-states.