{"slug": "agi-could-be-here-in-three-years-says-deepmind-ceo", "title": "AGI could be here in three years, says DeepMind CEO", "summary": "Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence could arrive by 2030, possibly as soon as 2029, warning that society has only a few years to prepare. In an interview with Axios, Hassabis described current AI agents as a \"practice run\" for more powerful systems and cautioned that governments and economists are not taking the development seriously enough. He also highlighted the risk that future AI systems could begin improving their own development, a capability all leading labs are actively pursuing.", "body_md": "Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward [artificial general intelligence](https://www.computerworld.com/article/4038512/agi-explained-artificial-intelligence-with-humanlike-cognition.html) (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society now has only a few years to prepare. He believes AGI could arrive around 2030, though acknowledges it could be here in 2029 — or even sooner.\n\nIn [an interview with Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis), Hassabis said that today’s AI agents — systems capable of performing tasks independently — should be viewed as a sort of “practice run” for significantly more powerful AI in the future. He also warned that governments, economists, and society at large are not taking this development seriously enough.\n\nOne particular risk he highlighted is that AI systems in the future might begin to improve their own development. “All the leading labs are pretty focused on that,” Hassabis told Axios. “It will yield clear benefits in the form of faster research. But there are also risks associated with that type of system.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agi-could-be-here-in-three-years-says-deepmind-ceo", "canonical_source": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/4178398/deepmind-ceo-agi-could-be-here-in-three-years.html", "published_at": "2026-05-28 17:12:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 22:28:33.214535+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-agents", "ai-research", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Demis Hassabis", "Google DeepMind", "Axios"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agi-could-be-here-in-three-years-says-deepmind-ceo", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agi-could-be-here-in-three-years-says-deepmind-ceo.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agi-could-be-here-in-three-years-says-deepmind-ceo.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agi-could-be-here-in-three-years-says-deepmind-ceo.jsonld"}}