This man controls humanity's future from a London lab.
- Chess prodigy at 4
- Nobel Prize winner at 48
- Leads Google's most secretive AI division
He built the AI that defeated humanity at every game we've mastered.
Here's his terrifying vision for the next 10 years: 🧵 https://t.co/geQp8j1rLM
Meet Sir Demis Hassabis - the man who might accidentally end human civilization while trying to save it.
At just 4yo, he learned chess and was beating his father within weeks.
By 13, he was a chess master with an Elo rating of 2300.
But chess was just the beginning... https://t.co/P4yUlXlxx0
While other kids played video games, Hassabis was programming them.
At 8, he bought his first computer and programmed it to play Othello.
By 17, he was lead programmer on the legendary game "Theme Park" at Bullfrog Productions.
Building AI before anyone knew what AI was. https://t.co/XlJ7ESRfWi
In his 20s, Hassabis won the "pentamind" - combining bridge, chess, Go, Mastermind and Scrabble - five times.
He didn't just master games. He studied what made minds work.
His PhD in neuroscience had one goal:
Reverse-engineer human intelligence to build something better. https://t.co/Kmsom24IZd
2010: The birth of DeepMind.
Hassabis co-founded DeepMind with an audacious goal:
Create artificial general intelligence (AGI) by combining machine learning, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
Google bought them for $500M in 2014 - Google's largest European acquisition. https://t.co/E39ZIli3xz
2016: The moment everything changed.
DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, the world's top Go player, 4-1.
Go has MORE possible board configurations than atoms in the universe.
It was proof that AI could develop intuition and strategy once thought impossible for machines. https://t.co/wYQNKczwRs
But Hassabis wasn't done conquering games.
A year later, AlphaZero beat the world champion chess program Stockfish after learning chess from scratch in just 4 hours.
It didn't just win - it played moves so beautiful that GMs called them "alien."
The AI was becoming creative. https://t.co/zSG2JuDVyi
2024: The Nobel Prize breakthrough.
Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold - an AI that predicted the 3D structure of virtually all 200 million known proteins.
Scientists called it solving "a 50yo problem that once took years to crack for each type of protein.” https://t.co/7DiorAa6sQ
The recent Lex Fridman podcast revealed Hassabis's most chilling prediction.
He proposed that "any pattern that can be generated or found in nature can be efficiently discovered and modeled by a classical learning algorithm."
Translation: AI can reverse-engineer reality itself. https://t.co/5hmqL9Iqbx
His timeline for AGI is terrifyingly close.
Hassabis predicts artificial general intelligence - AI that matches humans at any task - will emerge in 5-10 years, around 2030.
In a 145-page DeepMind safety paper, he warned AGI could "permanently destroy humanity." https://t.co/m4A7OUBaeX
The latest DeepMind projects are already reshaping reality:
- Gemini 2.0: First model in the "agentic era" with multimodal capabilities
- Gemini Deep Think: Won a gold-medal at International Mathematical Olympiad
- Isomorphic Labs: Now preparing AI-designed drugs for humans https://t.co/DmjhBWlktT
The scariest part? He told TIME:
"I'm not sure society's quite ready."
"If Hassabis couldn't maintain his ethical red line when AGI was just a distant promise, what compromises might he make when it comes within touching distance?"
Even he's terrified of what he's building. https://t.co/yLMTcWnvWO
His vision for the next decade:
An era of "radical abundance" where AGI solves "root node problems" - curing diseases, ensuring water access, discovering fusion energy.
But he also warns of "bad actors."
Individuals repurposing general-purpose AI technology for harmful ends. https://t.co/LZ0tiTCWxw
The man who mastered every game humanity invented is now playing the ultimate game:
Building artificial minds that could surpass us all.
"We're on the cusp - maybe five, maybe ten years."
The chess prodigy has become the architect of humanity's next evolution. https://t.co/iht1KiTXF1
Whether Hassabis saves humanity or accidentally ends it, one thing is certain: the next decade will be defined by the minds he's building in that London lab.
The kid who learned chess at 4 is now teaching machines to think.
And they might soon think better than us. https://t.co/JgGNu7qB5J
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