10 Times The Impact Of The Industrial Revolution, 10 times faster
Demis Hassabis Thinks We’re in the ‘Foothills of the Singularity’
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/demis-hassabis-thinks-were-foothills-singularity
The CEO of Google DeepMind discusses solving intelligence, giving away AlphaFold, and why he believes AGI is just around the corner.
Filed June 18, 2026 at 4:27 pm
That's the claim Demis Hassabis makes in this article. Artificial general intelligence could have “10 times the impact of the Industrial Revolution… 10 times faster.”
That future, Hassabis says, is just around the corner: “Ten years from now, I think we’ll realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity now.”