Hassabis cuts AGI timeline to two to three years

Hassabis's revised timeline is notable because it is the second compression he has made this year — from three to five years down to two to three — and he acknowledged the pattern directly, saying his estimate keeps moving closer to the present. He has also framed the stakes in stark terms, comparing AGI's impact to "10 times the industrial revolution at 10 times the speed." Alongside that forecast, he has proposed an industry-funded oversight board under government control to vet models before release, warning that bad regulation is worse than none. Since stepping down from Google DeepMind, his day-to-day focus is Isomorphic Labs, Google's drug discovery AI spin-off, which sits at the application end of the same technology he expects to arrive sooner than before.