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

Yeah, I do think that's right.

I think that is the stakes that we have to deal with.

And there's two things I worry about.

One is the misuse of these systems by bad actors and they can be repurposed.

These are dual purpose technologies.

They can be used for incredible good in science and health, as we just discussed, but they can also be repurposed for harmful ends by a bad actor.

So that's one issue.

Second issue is a technical one.

making sure these systems, as they get more powerful, not today's systems, but maybe in a year or two's time, when they become more agentic, more autonomous, as we get towards AGI, can they be kept on the guardrails that we want?

And I think regulation, the right kind of regulation, could help here in terms of making sure there's at least sort of minimum standards from all of the leading providers.

But it needs to ideally be a kind of international standards.

What is the right kind of regulation?

Yes, for sure.

I mean, it's sort of crazy the timing that we're in, right, with this most consequential maybe technology the world's ever seen.

Yeah.

at the same time as a very fragmented international system.

It's not ideal, but I think we're going to have to try and do the best we can to at least come up with a set of maybe minimum standards, some benchmarks that test for undesirable properties, for example, deception.

Nobody should be building systems that are capable of deception because then they could be getting around other safeguards.

And then I imagine, you know, if things go well, some kind of certification process that basically it's almost like a kite mark of, you know, quality that this model has certain safeguards and certain guarantees.

And so therefore, consumers and companies can safely sort of build on top of it.

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