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Demis Hassabis: AGI by 2030, urges US-led global AI regulator

AGI could arrive by 2030, says DeepMind chief who also calls for a new public-private regulator.

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Key Points
  • Hassabis predicts AGI by 2030 +/- 1 year, calling it an 'enormous transformative technology' that will usher in a new human era and the singularity.
  • Human qualities like taste, design sensibility, and original thinking will become more valuable as AGI takes over routine tasks.
  • Hassabis proposes a US-led public-private regulator modeled on FINRA to test frontier AI models and potentially slow their release if risks are too high.

Why It Matters

Hassabis’s timeline and regulatory blueprint give professionals a concrete framework to anticipate AGI’s impact on work and governance.

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