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My Take
Demis Hassabis might be the most consequential person in this entire database, and he is certainly the one I think about most. The arc is almost too neat: chess prodigy, teenage game programmer, then co-founder of DeepMind, the lab that redefined what machine learning could do. What separates him from other tech executives, in my view, is that he remains a genuine researcher who treats artificial intelligence as a scientific question about the nature of mind, not just a product line. The knighthood and Royal Society fellowship only confirm what the work already proved. When he speaks about where AI is heading, I listen carefully, with hope and unease in equal measure.
Overview
Sir Demis Hassabis (/ˈdɛ.mɪs/ DE-mis /hɑːˈsɑː.bis/ hah-SAH-bees; born Dimitrios Hassapis, Greek: Δημήτριος Χασάπης, 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, and a UK Government AI Adviser. In 2024, Hassabis and John M.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Demis Hassabis
- Name (Japanese)
- デミス・ハサビス
- Reading
- でみす・はさびす
- Born
- July 27, 1976 (age 49)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Dragon
- Origin
- London, Roman Empire
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- engineer / chess player / artificial intelligence researcher / computer scientist / game programmer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University College London
Awards & achievements
- 2014 Mullard Award
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- 2018 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2017 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2016 Nature's 10
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- 2018 honorary degree
- 2017 Time 100
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.