Demis Hassabis on Curing Diseases with AI, Proactive Agents, AI Relationships, and more

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Rowan Cheung interviews Demis Hassabis about AI's potential to cure diseases and its implications on education and human relationships.

Google just revealed a ton of AI developments at Google I/O 2025 - from AI Mode in Search, VEO 3, proactive agents, Gemini 2.5 upgrades, AI shopping assistants, and more. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack: -How AI could cure all diseases -Advice to the education system -Relationships and reliance on AI -Are humans at risk of becoming dumber? __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.theru...

People in this episode

Host: Rowan Cheung

Guest: Demis Hassabis

Topics covered

• AI developments
• healthcare
• education
• human-AI relationships
• technology risks

Keywords

• AI
• diseases
• education
• relationships
• Google I/O
• technology
• proactive agents

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, Google DeepMind, AI

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