DeepMind's founder Demis Hassabis just wrote the most important thing you'll read about AGI this year. Here's the breakdown.

Demis Hassabis the guy who built DeepMind and won a Nobel Prize for AlphaFold published article on X, worth reading slowly. its a full framework for what AGI means, what risks exist, and what we need to do, his thesis Where we are He believes AGI is a few years away. Compares it not to the internet but to the discovery of electricity or fire. Puts the economic impact at 10x the Industrial Revolution at 10x the speed. Thinks it could genuinely end resource scarcity as a limiting factor on human progress. On risks he's not dismissing them Cybersecurity threats from current models are already real. Bio and nuclear risks "may soon emerge." Then, His most important line, "Nobody in the world knows for sure what is going to happen from here, and even the experts disagree." This is Demis Hassabis saying that. It means something. His actual proposal: A Frontier AI Standards Body modeled on FINRA a public-private partnership that defines Frontier Models through regularly updated benchmarks, requires pre-release testing 30 days before deployment, and evaluates models for cybersecurity risks, bio threats, and deceptive behavior. He wants this to become the foundation for international standards. His argument is simple, the window before AGI arrives is finite and precious. Right now as a field we aren't using it well enough. Full piece is worth your time.