AGI Will Make Us Nicer—Says the Guy Building God
What if the only thing standing between humanity and global cooperation is a chess prodigy with a PhD and a trillion-dollar GPU budget?
Demis Hassabis believes AGI could fix us, literally. In this sweeping interview, the DeepMind CEO frames AGI not just as a tool, but as a societal reset button. With a 50% chance of human-level AI within a decade, he’s betting it will unlock “radical abundance,” reduce selfishness, and rewrite capitalism itself.
Hassabis isn’t downplaying risks: from rogue states to misaligned values, AGI could unravel reality as we know it. But to him, the solution is more science, not less fear. He’s not chasing profits (though Google is...) he’s chasing the Riemann hypothesis.
- 3–4 breakthrough ideas beyond transformers are needed for AGI
- Universal AI assistants as persistent companions
- AGI as a “non-zero-sum” social reset
We’re not just racing toward AGI, we’re gambling that it rewires human nature for good. The bigger question: can we control the values of the minds we’re about to create?
Read the full article on Wired.
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