Hassabis: AGI's big questions belong to the arts, full AGI years away
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-22
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the questions AGI raises must come from the arts and humanities, not technologists; he estimates full AGI is only a few years away and society isn't ready. The quoting post adds a sharper angle: he's handing the hardest part of his job to people outside the room — anyone shipping with these models is writing values into products years before anyone drafts the philosophy.
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