Visionary:Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis
Biography
Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, AI researcher, neuroscientist.
Category
AI Leader
Notable Quotes
On Creative Destruction in AI Era
"Solve intelligence, then use that to solve everything else."
—Demis Hassabis, DeepMind Company Mission (2010) Link
On AI Governance and Regulation
"AI will be the most beneficial technology humanity has ever created if we get it right."
—Demis Hassabis, Financial Times Interview (2023), July 14, 2023, Interview by Madhumita Murgia
On Productivity Paradox in Digital Age
"We need AI systems that can discover new knowledge, not just recombine existing information."
—Demis Hassabis, Lex Fridman Podcast (2022), July 20, 2022, Episode 299
On Zero Marginal Cost Society
"AlphaFold has predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science."
—Demis Hassabis, Nature (2022), July 28, 2022
On Human Capital in Age of AI
"Games are the perfect training ground for AI because they're controlled environments with clear objectives."
—Demis Hassabis, MIT Technology Review (2019), February 27, 2019, Interview by Will Knight