AGIRecord · hassabis-2026-agi-2030
Demis Hassabis
Co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind
Why they matterNobel laureate in Chemistry and co-founder of DeepMind; leads one of the two largest frontier AI laboratories
- Status
- Open
- Prediction made
- 2026
- Predicted arrival
- 2031
- Interval
- 5 yrs
“We are standing in the foothills of the singularity now… which is AGI. I believe that we are only a few years away from that, maybe around 2030, plus or minus a year.”
Context
Speaking at Stanford GSB in 2026, Hassabis put AGI at roughly 2030, plus or minus a year, and argued that society does not have long to prepare. The record uses the upper bound of his stated window.
This prediction is open: its target date has not yet passed. It is logged here because it has entered public discussion as a specific, dated forecast.
Source
A Conversation with Demis Hassabis — Stanford Graduate School of Business (via X)