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Demis Hassabis

individualCredibility: 58%

Why this score? CEO of Google DeepMind; Nobel-laureate researcher. Strong technical grounding; motivated principal on product and timeline claims.

Tracked Statements (2)

I think we're substantially ahead on 30 out of 32±

— Demis Hassabis · Dec 6, 2023
Context: The Verge, reporting the same day, noted the claimed margins over GPT-4 were 'mostly very close' — the 30-of-32 tally is technically Google's own benchmark table, and the practical gap it implied did not match the headline framing.

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.?

— Demis Hassabis · May 30, 2023
Context: The one-sentence Center for AI Safety ‘Statement on AI Risk,’ signed by more than 350 executives, researchers and engineers — including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic and Turing laureates Hinton and Bengio. A forward-looking, unfalsifiable claim about catastrophic risk; recorded as the field’s highest-profile collective warning, not as a checkable prediction. Yann LeCun of Meta pointedly did not sign.