Demis Hassabis

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Founders · #416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis · 1 Apr 2026 podcast

We can build electron microscopes and interrogate reality down to the most minute level.

We can build systems that detect black holes colliding from more than a billion years ago.

I mean, what is this?

What the hell is going on here?

I sit at my desk at 2 a.m., and I feel like reality is staring at me, screaming at me, literally screaming at me, trying to tell me something if I could just listen hard enough.

That's how I feel every day.

So you can see why I'm trying to build AI.

I've felt that since I was very young, that there's a deep, deep mystery about what's going on here.

You can frame it however you want.

You can call this God's design, or you can say it's just nature.

I'm open-minded about the description, and I don't know what the answers will turn out to be.

at the moment we don't really know what time is or gravity is or any of these things so there is a mystery waiting to be solved and it encompasses just about everything i would like to understand and then i'm perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil

That's just incredible.

And so then the author goes again, just into what kind of person Demis is.

Demis, who blazed the trail followed by his rivals, is decent and public spirited and wants the best for humanity.

He has ego.

He is ferociously competitive, but his goal is scientific enlightenment, not money or power.

The spiritual language in which he sometimes couches his mission underscores how seriously he takes it.

So I would say definitely after I got to spend time with him, but especially after reading this book, he's the kind of passionate missionary that you just root for, that you want to see win.

And so one of the reoccurring themes throughout this book is just his comfort in following his own path, making his own decisions.

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