Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis wants everyone to take note on AI: Humans only have a few years left to prepare for …

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind recently issued one of the starkest AI warnings. According to a report by Axios, speaking at the company’s annual developer conference, Hassabis said that humanity is standing in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ and has only a few years left to prepare for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Speaking to Axios after this keynote, Hassabis said that his prediction that AGI could arrive in as little as four years reflects growing confidence that the industry has found the right technical path. Hassabis also noted that the next wave of AI agents should be seen as a societal stress test for far more powerful systems to come. “You can imagine the agentic era in this next year is a little bit like a practice run,” he said. He pointed to Anthropic’s Mythos model as a warning shot, showing how quickly businesses and governments can be caught off guard by accelerating AI capabilities.