Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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On May 2, 2025, Sir Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate, joined IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg for a conversation on the ways in which artificial intelligence is transforming our capacities for discovery and reshaping the nature of knowledge.

In this clip, Hassabis explains how games led him to the interest in intelligence and AI, how games create a foundation for broader use cases, including science and thinking about thinking.

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May 2, 2025
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Full Video: youtu.be/TgS0nFeYul8