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Google’s Demis Hassabis Puts a Hopeful Spin on AI’s Environmental Impact

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Google’s Demis Hassabis Puts a Hopeful Spin on AI’s Environmental Impact

The DeepMind co-founder addressed AI's role in scientific inquiries and the positive outcomes he expects in addressing climate change.

Google DeepMind chair and co-founder Demis Hassabis took the main stage at the International AI Summit in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday morning to speak to global ministers, media and delegates about innovations in science and math, frontier AI and – taking a hopeful tack – the potential for AI to address climate issues.

“I actually think with the help of AI, that’s what’s going to end up giving us the technology to tackle the climate question,” he said.

During his chat, Hassabis briefly mentioned this week’s rollout of Google’s new Gemini 4 Argon model and the debacle around OpenAI’s claim to have solved the Navier-Stokes equation, one of history’s most difficult mathematical problems. But perhaps the most interesting aspect of his chat was what Hassabis did not say: AGI was not mentioned once. 

In May, I attended the Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, and listened to Hassabis speak at length about the power of artificial general intelligence – the hard-to-pin-down concept of AI that matches human intellectual capabilities – calling it the “foothills of the singularity” and estimating that achieving AGI is on the horizon. 

Five months later, a status report on progress toward AGI seemed to have slipped his mind. 

Instead, Hassabis opted to use his discussion time (a 20-minute slot following Executive Vice President of the European Commission Henna Virkkunen) to outline how AI excels in disciplines such as mathematics, coding and games like Go and those from Atari .


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