Google DeepMind: The Podcast
Episodes
The Future of Intelligence with Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks for joining us this year. 🔔 Subscribe to stay updated on our return in 2026, and revisit our episode library to catch up on everything from...
The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Further readingLevels of AGI paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462The road to AGI (Google DeepMind Podcast, S2): https://youtu.be/Uy4OYU7PQYAThanks ...
AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn more about AlphaFold: https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/Watch the story behind AlphaFold in The Thinking Game, now available for free: h...
Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn more about Waymo: https://waymo.com/Thank you to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry...
Pt.2 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two, Hannah and Four tackle the human element at the heart of cybersecurity: Who are the bad actors, and what motivates them? They dissect the...
Pt.1 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Further reading:CodeMender: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/introducing-codemender-an-ai-agent-for-code-security/Cybersecurity at Google: https:...
Genie 3: An Infinite World Model with Shlomi Fruchter and Jack Parker-Holder
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry speaks with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter about Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that can generat...
A Whistle Stop Tour of AI Creation with Paige Bailey
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is a slight departure from our usual deep dives. Join Paige Bailey, DevRel lead, as she guides Hannah Fry though some of her favor...
The Nature of AI: Solving the Planet's Data Gap with Drew Purves
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Further reading:Natural forests of the world: paper, data and benchmarksForest loss drivers: paper, summary from WRI, and blog from GFWForest loss dri...
A Quest for a Cure: AI Drug Design with Isomorphic Labs
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Hannah Fry is joined by Max Jaderberg and Rebecca Paul of Isomorphic Labs to explore the future of drug discovery in the age of ...
Redefining Robotics with Carolina Parada
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hannah is joined by Carolina Parada, Senior Director and Head of Robotics at Google DeepMind. They explore the recent leap forward in...
AI and the Future of Health with Joelle Barral
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry interviews Joelle Barral, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind, about AI in healthcare. They discuss e...
Consciousness, Reasoning and the Philosophy of AI with Murray Shanahan
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hannah is once again joined by Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at...
Is Human Data Enough? With David Silver
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Google DeepMind: The Podcast, VP of Reinforcement Learning, David Silver, describes his vision for the future of AI, exploring the ...
Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode for the year, we explore Project Astra, a research prototype exploring future capabilities of a universal AI assistant that can u...
Gemini 2.0 and the Evolution of Agentic AI with Oriol Vinyals
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hannah is joined by Oriol Vinyals, VP of Drastic Research and Gemini co-lead. They discuss the evolution of agents from single-task m...
The Balancing Act: Regulation & AI with Nicklas Lundblad
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is broad consensus across the tech industry, governments and society, that as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in every aspect of o...
Inside NotebookLM with Raiza Martin and Steven Johnson
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NotebookLM is a research assistant powered by Gemini that draws on expertise from storytelling to present information in an engaging way. It allows us...
AI for Science with Sir Paul Nurse, Demis Hassabis, Jennifer Doudna, and John Jumper
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Professor Hannah Fry at the AI for Science Forum for a fascinating conversation with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. They explore how AI is...
The Ethics of AI Assistants with Iason Gabriel
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a future where we interact regularly with a range of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) assistants — and where millions of assistants int...
AI in the Classroom with Irina Jurenka
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How human should an AI tutor be? What does ‘good’ teaching look like? Will AI lead in the classroom, or take a back seat to human instruction? Wil...
AI: Supercharging Scientific Exploration with Pushmeet Kohli
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Pushmeet Kohli, VP of Research at Google DeepMind to discuss AI’s impact on scientific discover...
Gaming, Goats & General Intelligence with Frederic Besse
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Games are a very good training ground for agents. Think about it. Perfectly packaged, neatly constrained environments where agents can run wild, work ...
Decoding Google Gemini with Jeff Dean
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Hannah Fry is joined by Jeff Dean, one of the most legendary figures in computer science and chief scientist of Google DeepMind and Google R...
AI Safety...Ok Doomer: with Anca Dragan
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building safe and capable models is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Can we make AI work for everyone? How do we prevent existential thre...
AI: Your New Creative Muse? with Douglas Eck
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Hannah Fry is joined by Google DeepMind's senior research director Douglas Eck to explore AI's capacity for true creativity. They delve into...
Unreasonably Effective AI with Demis Hassabis
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It has been a few years since Google DeepMind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis, and Professor Hannah Fry caught up.In that time, the world has caugh...
The promise of AI with Demis Hassabis
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah wraps up the series by meeting DeepMind co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis. In an extended interview, Demis describes why he believes AGI is po...
Fair for all
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AI needs to benefit everyone, not just those who build it. But fulfilling this promise requires careful thought before new technologies are built and ...
Me, myself and AI
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AI doesn’t just exist in the lab, it’s already solving a range of problems in the real world. In this episode, Hannah encounters a realistic recre...
AI for science
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Step inside DeepMind's laboratories and you'll find researchers studying DNA to understand the mysteries of life, seeking new ways to use nuclear ener...
The road to AGI
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah meets DeepMind co-founder and chief scientist Shane Legg, the man who coined the phrase ‘artificial general intelligence’, and explores how...
Let's get physical
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you need a body to have intelligence? And can one exist without the other? Hannah takes listeners behind the scenes of DeepMind's robotics lab in L...
Better together
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cooperation is at the heart of our society. Inventing the railway, giving birth to the Renaissance, and creating the Covid-19 vaccine all required peo...
A breakthrough unfolds
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2019, DeepMind’s AI system, AlphaFold, solved a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology, known as the protein-folding problem. A headline...
Speaking of intelligence
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah explores the potential of language models, the questions they raise, and if teaching a computer about language is enough to create artificial g...
DeepMind: The Podcast with Hannah Fry – Season 2 coming soon!
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The chart-topping podcast which uncovers the extraordinary ways artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world is back for a second season. Jo...
Demis Hassabis: The interview
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. She digs into his former life as a chess player...
Towards the future
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
AI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being...
AI for everyone
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While there is a lot of excitement about AI research, there are also concerns about the way it might be implemented, used and abused. In this episode ...
Out of the lab
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The ambition of much of AI research is to create systems that can help to solve problems in the real world. In this episode, Hannah meets the people b...
AI, Robot
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMind’s robotics...
Life is like a game
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. In this episode, Hannah sits down to play StarCraf...
Go to Zero
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a m...
AI and Neuroscience: The virtuous circle
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What can the human brain teach us about AI? And what can AI teach us about our own intelligence? These questions underpin a lot of AI research. In thi...
DeepMind: The Podcast - trailer
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Selected as “New and Noteworthy” by Apple Podcasts, the highly-praised, award-nominated first season of "DeepMind: The Podcast" explores the fasci...