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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) struck a enactment of "cautious optimism" saying Artificial Intelligence (AI) is acceptable to alteration subject and medicine but asserted that managing its societal challenges volition necessitate planetary dialog and cooperation.
Addressing a packed hallway astatine India AI Impact Summit, Mr. Hassabis said the satellite is astatine a "threshold moment", with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) perchance connected the skyline wrong the adjacent 5 to 8 years, making the the lawsuit successful New Delhi peculiarly timely arsenic much autonomous and agentic AI systems statesman to emerge.
"My connection is 1 of, I would say, cautious optimism. So I deliberation we're connected the cusp of an perfectly unthinkable translation that's going to bring unthinkable benefits successful subject and medicine specifically, is what I'm passionate about, and I tin spot revolutionising the mode we woody with quality health," helium said.
Mr. Hassabis noted galore astonishing companies, tools and products are gathering connected apical of AI systems.
"But past also, I would conscionable adhd a enactment of caution, which is, I deliberation we volition lick these method issues fixed capable clip and capable encephalon powerfulness connected it. I judge successful quality ingenuity, and if the champion minds enactment towards that, I deliberation it volition lick the method risks," helium said.
He added that the effort indispensable beryllium undertaken internationally connected societal challenges posed by AI, thing Mr. Hassabis said could yet beryllium much analyzable than the method aspects.
"...but we besides request to bash this internationally, truthful the societal challenges of that whitethorn really extremity up being the harder occupation than the method ones," helium said.
He noted that the opportunities are extraordinary, particularly successful advancing science, medicine, cause discovery, worldly subject and clime enactment done systems specified arsenic 'AlphaFold'.
Describing AI arsenic 1 of the astir transformative technologies successful quality history, helium stressed that its interaction volition beryllium planetary and crossed borders, underscoring the request for planetary dialog and cooperation.
He said planetary AI summits, opening successful the U.K. and continuing done Paris, Seoul and present India, play a important relation successful bringing unneurotic satellite leaders and exertion experts to guarantee AI's benefits are wide shared portion mitigating its risks.
