Hassabis Warns of AI Risks, Predicts AGI Within 5 Years at India AI Summit

Summary

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis used his appearance at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026 to sharply accelerate his public AGI timeline and call for urgent international cooperation on AI risk. Hassabis said artificial general intelligence could arrive within five years — roughly halving his prior estimate from the previous year — and described AI as "the most transformative technology in human history." Bloomberg reported his remarks to a global audience of heads of