Demis Hassabis

be clearly used in a very concrete way for the benefit of humanity.

And also we spun out companies like Isomorphic off the back of AlphaFold to do drug discovery.

And it's going really well and build sort of, you know, you can think of build additional AlphaFold type systems to go into chemistry space to help accelerate drug design.

And the examples I think we need to show and society needs to understand are where AI can bring these huge benefits.

Yeah, well, look, of course, you know, there's a strategy that Meta is taking right now.

I think that from my perspective, at least, I think the people that are real believers in the mission of AGI and what it can do and understand the real consequences, both good and bad from that and what that responsibility entails.

I think they're mostly doing it to be like myself, to be on the frontier of that research.

So, you know, they can help influence the way that goes and steward that technology safely into the world.

And, you know, Meta right now are not at the frontier.

Maybe they'll manage to get back on there.

And, you know, it's probably rational what they're doing from their perspective because they're behind and they need to do something.

But I think there's more important things than just money.

Of course, one has to pay, you know, people their market rates and all of these things.

And that continues to go up.

And I was expecting this because more and more people are finally realizing, leaders of companies, what I've always known for 30 plus years now, which is that AGI is the most important technology probably that's ever going to be invented.

So in some senses, it's rational to be doing that.

But I also think there's a much bigger question.

I mean, people in AI these days are very well paid.

I remember when we were starting out back in 2010, I didn't even pay myself for a couple of years.

because it wasn't enough money.