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

There's all sorts of ways I could see that completely changing the nature of the economy.

Well, I think actually...

AI will, in the medium to long run, more than pay for itself, I think, in terms of energy costs.

So we work on all these projects of optimizing existing infrastructure, like optimizing the grid.

I think we could probably get 30%, 40% more efficiency out of our national grids.

And then there's modeling the climate and weather.

And we have all sorts of the best weather modeling systems in the world.

So that helps us work out where the effects are really happening to mitigate that.

And then finally, the most exciting maybe is like these new breakthrough technologies like fusion, like new batteries, superconductors that I think AI will be essential for helping us reach.

And then I think we'll be in a completely new energy situation than we've ever been as humanity.

And then that will, of course, help with things like the climate and environment.

and eventually also help us get into space much more cheaply.

Because if you have an incredible energy source like fusion, then you have effectively unlimited rocket fuel because you can just distill catalyzed seawater.

Well, I should ask you that question too, but I think I saw in London when we started DeepMind as a place, and the UK in general, and Europe to some degree, there's incredible talent here.

We've always had, I don't know what it is, three or four of the top 10 universities in the world with Cambridge and Oxford, Imperial, UCL, these kind of universities.

So we're producing the envy of the world, really, these amazing graduates and PhD students

We have incredible scientists here.

We've got rich heritage of that all the way from Turing and Hawking and Darwin, Newton.

We have this incredible history of scientific breakthroughs and having great thinkers.

I felt we had all the ingredients and the talent and great engineers here, but it just hadn't been galvanized into an ambitious startup idea, a deep tech startup idea.

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