The CEO of Google’s AI Initiative Is Worried About 2 Things, and Neither Is AI Replacing Jobs

Demis Hassabis, the 48-year-old CEO of Google’s AI research division DeepMind, isn’t concerned about AI taking over jobs.

Instead, he’s worried about two things: bad actors using AI technology, and a lack of protective measures to keep autonomous AI models in check.

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“Both of those risks are important, challenging ones,” Hassabis told CNN this week.

Hassabis, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-creating an AI program that predicted protein structures, said he was worried about the possibility of humans misusing artificial general intelligence that matches or surpasses human intelligence.

He thinks there should be an international agreement to

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