Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

Demis Hassabis on the path to AGI at DeepMind, world models, AlphaFold's biological impact, video-game inspired research and the safety agenda.

The person leading one of the world's biggest AI labs explains how they teach computers to understand the world by playing games and studying biology, and how they hope this will help scientists cure diseases.

1. 1AGI likely arrives via a combination of scaling, planning and world models — not scaling alone.
2. 2AlphaFold has already changed how biologists study proteins and design drugs.
3. 3Game engines are a useful sandbox for testing agents before touching the real world.
4. 4Safety research must scale alongside capabilities, not after them.
5. 5Video and multimodal understanding is a key bottleneck for the next generation.

• company
  Google DeepMind
• model
  Gemini
• research
  AlphaFold 3