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Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of the machine learning start-up DeepMind, a subsidiary of Googles parent company Alphabet.

Hassabis was one of the AI leaders who co-signed the safe.ai open letter calling for mitigation of societal risks caused by AI to be as highly prioritised as that of pandemics and nuclear war. When speaking to Time magazine following the recent opening of DeepMinds London headquarters, urged caution around artificial intelligence development, commenting: Although we work on making machines smart, we wanted to keep humanity at the centre of what were doing here. The tech leader went on to claim that AI was on the cusp of potentially creating tools that could prove harmful to society.

With the company aiming to unleash the potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI) widely regarded as the next phase in AI development Hassabis said that this would serve as an epoch-defining technology akin to the discovery of electricity.

Aaron Hurst is Information Age's senior reporter, providing news and features around the hottest trends across the tech industry.More by Aaron Hurst

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Demis Hassabis - Information Age