- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence is a “few years away.”
- He said AI will have huge societal implications, bringing about a “post-scarcity” world.
- Hassabis estimated that AGI will arrive around 2030.
Because of AGI’s potential, the DeepMind CEO said now is the time to brace for the impacts, calling on humanities and STEM students to adapt to the new era and “lean in” to the technology.
“Society needs to hear that because we don’t have long to prepare for what that means,” he said. “The future, in my view, is still to be written, but these next few years are going to be very critical as to which way that will go and how we collectively want that to look like.”
