Demis Hassabis · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · AGI · Google · Decrypt
DeepMind CEO Confirms AGI Will Be Bigger Than Electricity or Fire
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For the second time this year, Demis Hassabis predicted that artificial general intelligence would arrive before the end of the decade.
Key facts
- In May 2023, during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for a federal agency to license powerful AI systems and require independent safety audits
- In January 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said human-level AI could emerge within one to five years and warned governments were underestimating the pace of development
- That same month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI is getting too powerful and safety rules akin to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are needed
- The news comes as AI leaders have spent much of the past year since the public launch of ChatGPT in 2022 warning that AGI could arrive sooner than expected
Summary
He wants a new U.S. standards body to evaluate frontier AI models before deployment. The proposal calls for pre-release testing that could eventually become mandatory for the most capable systems. Published Tuesday on X, the Google DeepMind CEO said AGI is "probably only a few short years away," describing it as a technology that could reshape human civilization. “When we look back on this time in the decades to come, I think we will realise we were standing in the foothills of the singularity–nothing less than the dawning of a new age for humanity.”