What Demis Hassabis thinks about recursive self-improvement

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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23 Jul 2025

Our readingAn end-to-end self-improving AI is probably possible, but it is not even desirable, because it is a hard-takeoff scenario.

Their wordsI mean potentially that's possible. I would say I'm not sure it's even desirable because that's a kind of hard takeoff scenario.

↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording