Demis Hassabis

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292 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 7 Apr

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution | Why LLMs Will Not Commoditise & We Have Not Hit Scaling Laws | Bottlenecks in AI & The Energy Crisis Caused By AI | Whether AI Will Do More to Harm or Help Inequality · 7 Apr 2026 podcast

But ideally, this time around, we mitigate some of the downsides a bit better than we did during the Industrial Revolution.

I think that's still the truth.

I mean, maybe all the both timescales of short term and long term are nearer than other technologies.

But I do think like literally today, as of today and in the next year, things are a bit overhyped in AI.

I mean, there couldn't be any more hyped in some ways.

But on the other hand,

Interestingly, I still think it's still very underappreciated how revolutionary this is going to be in the sort of timescale of about 10 years.

We could call that long term.

So there's still that dichotomy even today with AI.

Well, I think there's different ways that could play out.

So, you know, maybe pension funds should be buying into all the big AI companies and making sure that everyone has a piece of that or sovereign funds.

Maybe everyone, every country should have a sovereign wealth fund that does that.

That would be the investment way of doing it.

I think also there needs to be thought about if there is this massive productivity gain, but it's sort of narrow where that accrues, how do we redistribute and how do we distribute that so that everyone benefits from these huge gains?

And I can see all sorts of ways that could be done, including like providing sort of infrastructure and other things.

with that additional productivity gain.

I mean, there could be unbelievable things happening in the five to 10 year timescale, including like a breakthrough in some kind of renewable free energy.

You know, maybe we solve fusion.

We're working on that, right, with our partners at Commonwealth Fusion.

I think AI is gonna usher in, you know, maybe we have amazing new superconductors, better batteries, you know, material science.

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