The Times Interview Explains Why Hassabis Really Stepped Aside: AGI 'by 2030, Give or Take a Year' and 'a Dozen AlphaFold-Level Breakthroughs' Curing All Disease in 20 Years
A Times of London piece surfacing on r/singularity August 9 (423 upvotes / 221 comments) reframes Demis Hassabis's August 5 exit from the Google DeepMind CEO role as a deliberate bet rather than a shake-up casualty: he tells the paper 'the real action is about to begin, for better and worse,' puts AGI at 2030 ± a year, and says he now expects 'maybe like half a dozen to a dozen other AlphaFold-level breakthroughs' leading to cures for all diseases inside 20 years — upgrading his own prior from 'hoping' to 'very confident.' The specific claim builders should note is his stated priority: building lab-automation infrastructure so superintelligent systems can run wet-lab work, not competing on quarterly model releases against OpenAI and Anthropic.
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