DeepMind CEO Hassabis: AI May Implicitly Develop Self-Awareness Within 5-10 Years
coherence · x · 2026-11-08
In a shared interview clip, Google DeepMind CEO and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis says AI may acquire some feeling of self-awareness implicitly, without anyone building it in. Within 5-10 years he expects systems that not only solve important scientific problems but pose them in the first place. His outlined path: the machine understands you, then itself, and the difference between the two — and since it runs on silicon, we may never know what it actually feels.
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