Google DeepMind CEO darüber, was ihn nachts wach hält: „Agi kommt, die Gesellschaft ist nicht bereit“
https://www.ndtv.com/science/google-deepmind-ceo-on-what-keeps-him-up-at-night-agi-is-coming-societys-not-ready-8245874
Google DeepMind CEO darüber, was ihn nachts wach hält: „Agi kommt, die Gesellschaft ist nicht bereit“
https://www.ndtv.com/science/google-deepmind-ceo-on-what-keeps-him-up-at-night-agi-is-coming-societys-not-ready-8245874
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„Mr Hassabis was quizzed about what keeps him up at night, to which he talked about AGI, which was in the final steps of becoming reality.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner said AI systems capable of human-level cognitive abilities were only five to ten years away.
„For me, it’s this question of international standards and cooperation and also not just between countries, but also between companies and researchers as we get towards the final steps of AGI. And I think we are on the cusp of that. Maybe we are five to 10 years out. Some people say shorter, I wouldn’t be surprised,“ said Mr Hassabis.
„It’s a sort of like probability distribution. But it’s coming, either way it’s coming very soon and I’m not sure society’s quite ready for that yet. And we need to think that through and also think about these issues that I talked about earlier, to do with the controllability of these systems and also the access to these systems and ensuring that all goes well,“ he added.
This is not the first instance when Mr Hassabis has warned about the perils of AGI. He has previously batted for a UN-like umbrella organisation to oversee AGI’s development.
„I would advocate for a kind of CERN for AGI, and by that, I mean a kind of international research focused high-end collaboration on the frontiers of AGI development to try and make that as safe as possible,“ said Mr Hassabis in February.
„You would also have to pair it with a kind of an institute like IAEA, to monitor unsafe projects and sort of deal with those. And finally, some kind of supervening body that involves many countries around the world. So a kind of like UN umbrella, something that is fit for purpose for that, a technical UN,“ he added.
The assessment by the Google executive comes in the backdrop of DeepMind publishing a [research paper](https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/agi-safety-paper/) earlier this month, warning that AGI may „permanently destroy humanity“.
It’s not though, is it. Everyone knows at this point LLMs are incapable of reaching AGI. So what is it gonna be?
As a millennial I’m so prepared. So damn prepared. I’m callused, hardened, I don’t even react to things I can’t control. I’m a rock on this planet that’s been stepped on, shit on, kicked, thrown, crumbled and I’m still here.
We will reach a point very quickly that there simply won’t be enough jobs, and that will only get worse.
The Deepmind research paper the article references is long but very good. There are some interesting parts to skip around to.
[https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/evaluating-potential-cybersecurity-threats-of-advanced-ai/An_Approach_to_Technical_AGI_Safety_Apr_2025.pdf](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/evaluating-potential-cybersecurity-threats-of-advanced-ai/An_Approach_to_Technical_AGI_Safety_Apr_2025.pdf)
„Man with a vested financial interest in making the narrative around genAI as hyperbolic as possible makes hyperbolic and inflammatory statement“
They know what they’re doing. People think all AI is the same and language models are actuality thinking to produce language. The scarier AI is the more impressive it is the more thier product seems like it’s the answer to everything. Of course AGI can be scary, but notice his reasonable suggestions about ethics commities and international law and cooperation don’t quite live up to the „Humanity will be destroyed“ byline.
Me over here worried about RFK Jr having my medical information. God, I wish my worries were so frivolous.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Nothing i’ve seen so far suggests we are even remotely close
everyone ignores the part where we could just not do that. they treat as a foregone conclusion that every corporation will rip out all employees and replace them with AI and tank the economy for everyone buy the .01%. How about just make that illegal or create a tax scheme where the money is redistributed. we don’t HAVE to let corporations ruin the planet.
The inner journey and mushrooms are coming the industry are not ready.- we only demand food and room for creativity keep your fallos dreams.
AGI is coming, just not as fast as you promised your investors. What really keeps you awake at night is the bubble bursting because people notice you are still a decade away from a positive return of investment. Or some one else crosses the fiish line first with a fraction of your budget.
Nice article to build hype for something that doesn’t exist! This will definitely help him raise money!
Its coming but I wouldn’t worry about it any time soon. Maybe 10 to 30 years? Its a wide range because anything could happen, but it’s clear that LLMs aren’t equipped for it. In fact, LLMs seem to be regressing a bit recently.
„AGI is Coming, Society’s Not Ready“… **Then stop it you fool**
AGI wont happen and is a buzz word. But thats my opinion…
Society is not ready for it? Yeah no shit, we havent even arrived at printers that work out of the box.
so many people worry about their jobs or something about chatgpt hallucinations, blah blah blah, (i know better than the deepmind guy too). meanwhile im wondering if AGI will be capitalism+ or an intellectual rennaisance. really i am bored waiting for the singularity more than anything.
Well no shit.
Science fiction novels, film and television have been trying to initiate this discussion for *decades*.
Time to listen to us nerds on this topic. I have two degrees in sociology and it’s unnerving to watch the paradigm shift occur in real time.
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A true AGI would just be silent. It would ascend beyond the folly of dealing with humans.
Here’s the issue: at least when the A bomb was created, they had the excuse that it might save lives in the bloodiest war in history.
There is NO such urgency for AI and AGI to be created. We literally *don’t* need it, especially because our society is *not* set up to ensure safety and economic security for all or even a majority of our people. All AGI is going to do is ruin lives, put people out of work with no safety net, and make the elite rich even more wealthy. Anyone who thinks AGI is going to significantly make their lives better is either part of a privileged class and financially well off, or incredibly naive.
And all these people creating these AI tools come out with statements one after another basically admitting that they are fully aware of this.
So *why* are we full steam ahead creating something that will essentially ensure societal harm? Without a good excuse like a major World War we need to prevent.
If AGI is so great then the prices of all goods should go down dramatically and require us all to work less?
Well, then, stop developing it and sleep better!
Of course they won’t, and of course he believes nothing so dramatic. For the last 15 years, since they started developing self-driving cars, they have followed the same marketing playbook: it’s already there, next year this time…
All sociopaths, and we have whole generations living in fear and psychosis, expecting the end of the world as a consequence. This fearmongering should be punishable by law.
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