nonetheless there are these risks and concerns and demis hassabis spokein and concerns and demis hassabis joined the call for two international bodies to research and regulate ai. so we talked about something many akin to cern with a note from particle physics and collaborate on research and also akin to the iaea the nuclear washed all that sits there to control the rest. do you see two bodies working together to control the risk and advance the research? i together to control the risk and advance the research?- together to control the risk and advance the research? i think as we look at al, — advance the research? i think as we look at al, it _ advance the research? i think as we look at al, it is _ advance the research? i think as we look at al, it is what _ advance the research? i think as we look at al, it is what we _ advance the research? i think as we look at al, it is what we call - advance the research? i think as we look at al, it is what we call a - look at al, it is what we call a general purpose technology that can be applied to many different problems in different sectors. s

leaders of the major ai labs, including sam altman of openai, the people behind chat gpt and demis hassabis signing a letter stating that... that certainly makes you think. all part of the reason why people and countries are approaching ai with a mixture of fear and excitement. optimism and concern put into numbers in one recent survey of workers, with over a third saying that they thought their jobs were likely to be eliminated by artificial intelligence. front line workers are surprisingly more negative about the impact of machine learning than managers. and international differences also showed up. the most optimistic, brazil, india and the middle east. and the least optimistic, the united states, the netherlands and japan. kriti sharma, a real pleasure having you on the programme. we have looked at how different countries are approaching ai. i am wondering, are using different regions embracing the tech and others that are not? we are seeing pretty much a race to being the first in al, the leader in al around the world. the approach however is different. some countries are taking more t

the times newspaper has an interview today with demis hassabis. he is the chief executive of google�*s deepmind. he has control of one of the most powerful ai units in the world within the company's offices in kings cross, central london. he says he can envisage a future where ai delivers breakthroughs in all sorts of areas — in energy storage, drug research, delivering solutions to diseases we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health's a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it's already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x—rays. there's a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health's a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the a

the company was co-founded just 12 years ago by ceo demis hassabis. >> so if i think back to 2010 whenthere was nothing going on in industry. people used to eye roll when we talked to them, investors, about doing ai. so we couldn't, we could barely get two cents together to start off with, which is crazy if you think about now the billions being invested into ai startups. >> cambridge, harvard, m.i.t., hassabis has degrees in computer science and neuroscience. his phd is in human imagination. and, imagine this, when he was 12, in h his age group, he was e number two chess champion in the world. it was through games that he came to ai. >> i've been working on ai for decades now, and i've always believed that it's going to be the most important invention that humanity will ever make. >> will the pace of change outstrip our ability to adapt? >> i don't think so. i think that we, you know, we're sort of an infinitely adaptable species. you know, you look at today us using all of our smartphones and other devices, and we effortlessly sort of adapt to these new technologies. and this is goin