By Nick Lichtenberg
Publication Date: 2026-02-11 16:09:00
Sir Demis Hassabis, the recently minted Nobel laureate and CEO of Google DeepMind, believes humanity is standing on the precipice of a “new golden era of discovery.” But reaching this utopia will require navigating a turbulent transition period—a decade-long sprint that Hassabis describes as a necessary disruption for the $3.9 trillion tech giant he helps lead.
Speaking to Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell on the Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Hassabis offered a vision of the future defined by “radical abundance.” It is a world where artificial intelligence has successfully bottled the scientific method to solve the planet’s most intractable problems.
“In 10, 15 years’ time, we’ll be in a kind of new golden era of discovery that [is] a kind of new renaissance,” Hassabis predicted. In this near future, he predicted that “medicine won’t look like it does today,” with AI enabling personalized treatments and curing…
