{"id":212029,"date":"2025-04-21T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/artificial-intelligence-could-end-disease-lead-to-radical-abundance-google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-says"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:07:56","slug":"artificial-intelligence-could-end-disease-lead-to-radical-abundance-google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/artificial-intelligence-could-end-disease-lead-to-radical-abundance-google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-says","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence could end disease, lead to \u201cradical abundance,\u201d Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize<\/a> last year, he celebrated by playing poker with a world champion of chess. Hassabis loves a game, which is how he became a pioneer of artificial intelligence. The 48-year-old British scientist is co-founder and CEO of Google\u2019s AI powerhouse, called DeepMind. We met two years ago<\/a> when chatbots announced a new age. Now, Hassabis and others are chasing what\u2019s called artificial general intelligence\u2014a silicon intellect as versatile as a human but with superhuman speed and knowledge. After his Nobel and a knighthood from King Charles, we hurried back to London to see what\u2019s next from a genius who may hold the cards of our future.<\/p>\n

Demis Hassabis: What\u2019s always guided me and\u2014 the passion I\u2019ve always had is understanding the world around us. I\u2019ve always been\u2014 since I was a kid, fascinated by the biggest questions. You know, the\u2014 meaning of\u2014 of life, the\u2014 nature of consciousness, the nature of reality itself. I\u2019ve loved reading about all the great scientists who worked on these problems and the philosophers, and I wanted to see if we could advance human knowledge. And for me, my expression of doing that was to build what I think is the ultimate tool for advancing human knowledge, which is\u2014 which is AI.<\/p>\n

Scott Pelley: We sat down in this room two years ago. And I wonder if AI is moving faster today than you imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize last year, he celebrated by playing poker with a world champion of chess. Hassabis loves a game, which is how he became a pioneer of artificial intelligence. The 48-year-old British scientist is co-founder and CEO of Google\u2019s AI powerhouse, called DeepMind. We met two years ago when chatbots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}