Chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is Google DeepMind's co-founder and chair, Alphabet's chief scientist, and a Nobel laureate for AI-based protein structure prediction.
About Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet. In a 2026 leadership announcement, Google said he would hand over day-to-day operational responsibilities at DeepMind to focus on AI strategy and science, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs.
Hassabis shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His work with John Jumper on AlphaFold2 helped researchers predict the three-dimensional shapes of proteins, supporting scientific applications including pharmaceutical and environmental research.
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- Bryan Johnson Says the Singularity Will Feel Like a 5-MeO-DMT Trip. He Is Half Right. →
Bryan Johnson argued on X that the race to AGI cannot be stopped and that the coming years will feel like the most powerful psychedelic on earth. The overwhelm he describes is already measurable in engineering teams. The fatalism bolted to it is a separate claim that deserves separate scrutiny.
- Google DeepMind Launches the DeepMind Institute to Study AGI →
Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg announced the DeepMind Institute on September 16, 2026 — a platform for interdisciplinary research on what AGI means for the economy, science, and society. It launched with five essays, including one on eleven economic policies for AI-driven disruption. Here's what's actually in it, and what the reaction on X pushed back on.
- Jack Dorsey's "Open the Frontier" Answers Amodei — With Open Weights →
Three days after Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier," Jack Dorsey published his own long-form answer on X: "open the frontier." He backs scrutiny and independent evaluators, but rejects industry-wide capability limits negotiated by today's labs, arguing for open weights, published reproduction data, and a "freedom to leave" any single provider instead.
- Pace the Frontier Goes Cross-Partisan: Baker, Burry, Trump, and Harris React →
Three days after Dario Amodei's "Pace the Frontier" essay, the debate jumped from AI labs into markets and national politics. Investor Michael Burry called the pacing warnings "self-serving hype tied to IPOs," AI researcher Gary Marcus voiced similar doubt, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar cast AI safety as ideological overreach, President Trump dismissed the whole premise as a "hoax" — first in a post, then live on a call to the All-In Summit with Jensen Huang on stage — and Kamala Harris called for Congress to pass a law slowing frontier AI down. Here's who said what, and why it now matters more than the essay itself.