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Demis Hassabis: AI could cause 'major' incidents within 2 years without safeguards

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AI systems could cause "major" incidents within two years without adequate steps to make them safe as capabilities grow, Demis Hassabis says. Speaking at an AI conference in Dublin he described recent incidents as "early warning shots" fired by systems that "aren't that powerful yet". "So the incid…

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  1. 2026-10-14 11:09 · r/singularity
    Demis Hassabis: AI could cause 'major' incidents within 2 years without safeguards

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