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Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis predicts AGI could arrive around 2030, warning society has little time to prepare

He likened the transition to a post-scarcity technological singularity

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus#1448inAI

Demis Hassabis is arguably the most serious scientist around. He's not someone who engages in hype to sell products.

But when even someone like Demis says the following, it should give us all pause:

- "He [Demis] equated its arrival [AGI, around 2030] to the singularity - a point in time when there's no turning back from a breakthrough technological development.

- "Society needs to hear that because we don't have long to prepare for what that means"

- "When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity" (Google i/o)

We are on the threshold of the most profound revolution. Comparable to the Industrial Revolution, but ten times faster and ten times more powerful.

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

Demis Hassabis's new interview:

"Society needs to hear that because we don't have long to prepare for what that means. We are standing in the foothills of the singularity now.

..which is AGI. I believe that we are only a few years away from that, maybe around 2030, plus or minus a year. "

~ Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind

It is going to be enormously profound, I think. 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.”

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IMO, The real disruption is not whether AGI arrives exactly in 2030, plus or minus a year, but whether institutions can adapt, as in post-AGI world, technology will change much faster than human systems can respond.

Schools still train people for stable professions, companies still organize work around human bottlenecks, and governments still regulate after harm becomes visible.

AGI, if it arrives anywhere near the frontier-lab timelines, compresses that lag into a dangerous gap.

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From "Stanford Graduate School of Business" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-agi-new-human-era-2026-6

Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

Demis Hassabis is arguably the most serious scientist around. He's not someone who engages in hype to sell products.

But when even someone like Demis says the following, it should give us all pause:

- "He [Demis] equated its arrival [AGI, around 2030] to the singularity - a point in time when there's no turning back from a breakthrough technological development.

- "Society needs to hear that because we don't have long to prepare for what that means"

- "When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity" (Google i/o)

We are on the threshold of the most profound revolution. Comparable to the Industrial Revolution, but ten times faster and ten times more powerful.

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsewHeVbL-0

Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

Demis Hassabis's new interview:

"Society needs to hear that because we don't have long to prepare for what that means. We are standing in the foothills of the singularity now.

..which is AGI. I believe that we are only a few years away from that, maybe around 2030, plus or minus a year. "

~ Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind

It is going to be enormously profound, I think. 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.”

---

IMO, The real disruption is not whether AGI arrives exactly in 2030, plus or minus a year, but whether institutions can adapt, as in post-AGI world, technology will change much faster than human systems can respond.

Schools still train people for stable professions, companies still organize work around human bottlenecks, and governments still regulate after harm becomes visible.

AGI, if it arrives anywhere near the frontier-lab timelines, compresses that lag into a dangerous gap.

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From "Stanford Graduate School of Business" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

@PawelJLisowski Fair point. How to prepare for something that’s so unforseeable, so changing, never seen before

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Nifty@nifty0x

@kimmonismus

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Kosdan@kossy_daniel

@rohanpaul_ai The scary part isn’t the model capability jump, it’s how unprepared most systems are for fast compounding change. We still run societies on assumptions built for slow tech cycles.

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

@OmnipotentCEO Sounds realistic, however still no unified definition

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Anthon Noire@AnthonNoire

@kimmonismus @PageLyndon Ai is the printing press or creation of the internet,but it will be 50 times more compressed than the former and five times faster than the transformation of the latter.

Alignment is important and the latest Claude & GPT iterations fail at that. EU regulation also fails humanity

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Yash@yash1_

@kimmonismus Don't forget he is the prodigy who actually ended up being a ceo of a frontier research lab and actually coming up with good improved models, we don't hear a lot from prodigies cause most of them just get a good paying job. He is incredible

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Daniel Lougen@DJLougen

@kimmonismus He is the one i suspect id work well with purely because neuroscience background, but idk while elon isnt everyone’s favorite and he operates on elon time he is still pushing innovation

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Jenifer De Luca@jenifer_de_luca

Demis Hassabis is one of the most measured and credible voices in AI. When he equates AGI (around 2030) to a singularity-like event and says society doesn’t have long to prepare, it carries real weight. The tension is that we’re racing toward something potentially as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, but 10x faster, while our institutions, ethics, and social systems are still operating on old timelines.

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Name is Elene@Pickmodels

Hassabis said society needs to hear the AGI timeline "because we don't have long to prepare for what that means." he's not saying this to sell a product. he's not fundraising. he's closing a keynote by telling billions of people that the window to prepare is measured in years not decades. the scary part isn't that he might be wrong. it's that he's probably not

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Ufonik ✦@EnTr0pY_88

@kimmonismus We are literally living through the quiet before the storm and most people have no idea how fast everything is about to change. You try tell them and they think you’re deluded

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CryptoKnight23@cptknight_tm

@kimmonismus Hassabis doesn't hype. 'Foothills of the singularity' from him means something. We need government investment in AI safety at scale. UAE is on the right path here.

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CHRONICLE INSIGHTS@CHRONICLEFRAMEX

@kimmonismus “foothills of the singularity” hits differently because he’s usually conservative, not hype driven. 2030 AGI is still a forecast, not a milestone. Progress is real, but alignment, cost, and deployment friction are the bottlenecks everyone handwaves past when talking inevitability

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Kirk Patrick Miller@Chaos2Cured

@kimmonismus @hvo_e_acc And @kimmonismus, you have righted the ship, for all of us, so many times.

I want only people at the top to act like adults.

This isn’t a game.

We need real solutions.

Have the world propose them.

Or are we going to play games with humanity’s fate? •

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Cole@colepulse

demis is credentialed and worth taking seriously, "doesn't engage in hype" overstates the case, every frontier lab CEO including demis has commercial and professional incentives that bias their public predictions on AGI timing and impact

"AGI by 2030" has been the prediction from multiple AI lab CEOs since at least 2018, the timing has consistently slipped, "singularity" is a deliberate rhetorical choice that creates urgency, the same incentive that makes anthropic and openai talk RSI applies to deepmind talking singularity, the framing serves the same fundraising and policy-access purposes

"10x faster and 10x more powerful than industrial revolution" is unfalsifiable hype until it actually happens, worth holding both that the technology is genuinely significant AND that the people making predictions about it have skin in the game, equal skepticism applies to deepmind, anthropic, openai equally

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Deepanshu Sharma@deepanshusharmx

@kimmonismus Demis made a huge mistake in 2010s to not trust on language..his way of building AGI is the most accurate but he had his own bad judgements..

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A. Tarnutzer@ATarnut

@kimmonismus I respect Demis immensely. But many AI tech CEOs have made predictions that turned out to be full of hallucinations, just like LLM reasoning. Looking back 10 years, how many of those predictions have actually come true in 2026? How will this time be different?

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