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AI pace debate
42 researchers, lab leaders and critics mapped through original statements: who supports pacing, who wants stronger limits, and who challenges the mechanism. Four portrait charts distinguish policy positions from stated AI risk estimates.
newsDario Amodei calls to pace the frontier, and Altman and Hassabis sign on
Dario Amodei’s new essay says the industry must slow capabilities so safety can catch up, and commits Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators. Musk said "Dario is right", Sam Altman said OpenAI will do the same, Hassabis and Karpathy lined up, and…
blogAI Socratic August 2026 — Escaping The Sandbox
OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
newsGoogle's AI talent exodus: Hassabis steps back, Jeff Dean launches Discovery Loop, a Gemini lead joins Coreau
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chair as Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le depart to launch Discovery Loop, an AI startup aimed at automating machine-learning research, and a Gemini pre-training lead…
newsDemis Hassabis: A Framework for Frontier AI
Demis Hassabis proposes a US Frontier AI Standards Body modeled on FINRA to oversee advanced AI models, requiring pre-release safety testing and mandatory certification before US deployment.
newsHassabis: AGI by 2030, give or take
Demis Hassabis predicts artificial general intelligence will arrive by 2030, though he acknowledges significant uncertainty around the timeline.
newsAI Ascent 2026 by Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent 2026 brought together Brockman, Karpathy, Hassabis, and 150+ founders to discuss LLM primitives, model inconsistencies, and the emerging agent-native economy.
blogAI Socratic May 2026 — The Selfish Gen AI
DeepSeek v4, GPT 5.5, Trump x Xi meeting, Richard Dawkins, Estimating model sizes
blogAI Socratic July-Sep 2025 Part 1 — The Genie3 Is Out of The Box 🍌
This time around we’ll have 2 events, one in New York, and one for the first time in San Francisco at the Frontier Tower. We’ll discuss the top news and updates from this blog post using the Socratic
newsDemis Hassabis on Lex Fridman Podcast: Future of AI and Simulating Reality
Demis Hassabis discusses AI's ability to model complex natural patterns, the path to AGI, AlphaFold's breakthroughs, and why responsible development and shared benefits matter as technology accelerates.