Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, which he started in 2010 with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman with the stated mission of building AGI. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, which predicts protein structures. He signed the 2023 statement that AI extinction risk should be a global priority; Many serious people say AGI is dangerous quotes him.

Timelines

• 2025-03-17, DeepMind briefing: AGI “will start to emerge in the next five or 10 years.” He defines AGI strictly, as a system that shows all the cognitive capabilities humans have, and says current systems still lack consistency, creativity and long-term planning.

He tends to give later dates than the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic, and has said the industry hype runs ahead of the science.

See AGI timelines.