--- title: "Demis Hassabis: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Demis Hassabis, Chief executive. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-demis-hassabis source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Demis Hassabis, Demis Hassabis AI, Demis Hassabis quotes, Demis Hassabis statements, Demis Hassabis on AI, what Demis Hassabis said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Demis Hassabis, Chief executive. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-demis-hassabis The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Demis Hassabis [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-demis-hassabis) Chief executive · Google DeepMind ## Why now No headline this week names Demis Hassabis. ## What they said 5 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Demis Hassabis, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Jan 23, 2026 In the record "maybe we need one or two more breakthroughs before we'll get to AGI" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Events](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-events) · [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/01/23/deepmind-demis-hassabis-anthropic-dario-amodei-yann-lecun-ai-davos/) - Apr 27, 2025 In the record "Maybe we're five to 10 years out. Some people say shorter. I wouldn't be surprised." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [TIME](https://time.com/7280740/demis-hassabis-interview/) - Apr 20, 2025 In the record "It's moving incredibly fast. I think we are on some kind of exponential curve of improvement." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-demis-hassabis-60-minutes/) - Oct 9, 2024 In the record "Receiving the Nobel Prize is the honour of a lifetime" [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [Google DeepMind](https://deepmind.google/blog/demis-hassabis-john-jumper-awarded-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/) - Jan 12, 2023 In the record "I would advocate not moving fast and breaking things" [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [TIME](https://time.com/6246119/demis-hassabis-deepmind-interview/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Demis%20Hassabis#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Demis Hassabis ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Apr 20, 2025 ["It's moving incredibly fast. I think we are on some kind of exponential curve of improvement."](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-demis-hassabis-60-minutes/) - Apr 27, 2025 ["Maybe we're five to 10 years out. Some people say shorter. I wouldn't be surprised."](https://time.com/7280740/demis-hassabis-interview/) - Jan 23, 2026 ["maybe we need one or two more breakthroughs before we'll get to AGI"](https://fortune.com/2026/01/23/deepmind-demis-hassabis-anthropic-dario-amodei-yann-lecun-ai-davos/) - Jan 12, 2023 ["I would advocate not moving fast and breaking things"](https://time.com/6246119/demis-hassabis-deepmind-interview/) - Oct 9, 2024 ["Receiving the Nobel Prize is the honour of a lifetime"](https://deepmind.google/blog/demis-hassabis-john-jumper-awarded-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Demis Hassabis. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Demis Hassabis with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.