Demis Hassabis: AGI around 2030, plus or minus a year

‘When we look back at this time … I think we'll realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity now’

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HASSABIS: "Yeah, so the full thing I said to sort of close the, the, the conference with was, um, when we look back at this time, I think that, you know, maybe I'm thinking sort of 10 years from now, I think we'll realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity now. What I mean by that, and the way I... reason I chose that word, is that, um, so there's the technology, which is AGI. We've been calling AGI this, this, this next version of really general a- a- artificial intelligence. I believe that we're only a few years away from that, maybe like 2030 plus or minus a year, which is astounding to think, really. Um, and then the era, I think that will be such an enormous transformative technology, it's gonna effectively be a new human era. And that's what I'm meaning by the singularity, is that, and what many science fiction writers have written about that, is that it's sort of the... It's describing the era that we will be in, um, in and around when AGI... the advent of AGI happens"

Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business · Jun 2, 2026 · 57s clip