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Demis Hassabis says AGI is only a few years away and we're in singularity foothills
“I think we are only a few years away now from from the full version of that.”— Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared at Google I/O that AGI is 'only a few years away' and that 2026-2027 will be seen historically as when the singularity era began. He pointed to agentic coding systems as the tangible proof point, noting tasks that once took 6 months now take hours. This is a significant escalation in public AGI timeline messaging from one of the field's most credentialed figures.