Demis Hassabis

Future AIs would behave in the same way.

Tasked, for example, to help solve energy scarcity by inventing a superconductor, an AI might draw up a reading list, conduct experiments, invent novel materials, and so on, pursuing its goal over the space of a year or more.

And it all goes back to the fact that Demas is a missionary, that he's on a mission, and that he's very clear about what his motives are.

I'm doing this for knowledge and science.

This is my whole life's work.

I have to do what's necessary.

The mission is in me.

It is infused in me.

You can't separate it from me.

I'm definitely not denying it can be strong-willed or difficult.

I think I have to be.

If I was like a reed in the wind, I wouldn't be doing my job as a leader.

Demis' core theme is that money and power were not ends in themselves.

They were a means to scientific knowledge.

I think so.

I mean, I've been on record saying what I'd like to see happen, it was always my dream of the kind of the roadmap, at least I had when I started out DeepMind 15 years ago and started working on AI 25 years ago now, was that as we got close to this moment, this threshold moment of AGI arriving,

We would maybe collaborate, you know, in a scientific way.

I sometimes talk about setting up an international CERN equivalent for AI, where all the best minds in the world would collaborate together to kind of figure out what we want from this technology and how to utilize it in a

in a way that benefits all of humanity.

And I think that's what's at stake.