Demis Hassabis is a cofounder of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist.
Case
After leaving Anthropic, Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI were irresponsibly racing toward self-improving superintelligence, while praising Anthropic’s current practices. Responses dispute catastrophic-risk forecasts, working inside AI labs, and whether governments should pause or regulate development.
Role at the time: Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist, writing on his public X account.
Responding to
Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
“Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment. This is also why we recently put out our proposal for an industry-wide standards body for frontier AI.”
Hassabis expressly called the proposal’s direction correct. Saying that its details still need work limits the scope of his endorsement but does not make his support conditional or reverse it; the record does not treat the post as approval of every implementation detail.
Statement dates: September 12, 2026
