NEW DELHI: Founder and CEO Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, attended the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and shared his thoughts on AI Safety, Agentic AI, and various AI innovations.
“This Summit comes at a critical time as we start seeing more autonomous agentic AI systems,” Demis Hassabis said, appreciating the government’s efforts and willingness to inculcate AI in their systems.
Commenting on what AI systems need to build on more, he said, “When I look at the current systems and what’s missing from them being a kind of general intelligence, I would say things like continual learning, so learning after they’ve been trained and put out into the world. In today’s systems, we train them, we do various different types of training on them, and then they’re kind of frozen and then put out into the world. But what you’d like is for those systems to continually learn online from experience to learn from the context they’re in, maybe personalised to the situation and the task that you have for them, and today’s systems don’t do that.”
Current models have shown difficulties in devising long-term plans. On this Hassabis said, “Also, they have difficulty with things like doing long-term coherent plans. They can plan over the short term, but over the longer term, as the way that we plan can plan over years, they don’t really have that capability at the moment.”
Consistency in processes and functionality is also an issue he highlighted. He said, “I think probably one of the biggest issues is what I would call consistency. So today’s systems are kind of like jagged intelligences. They’re very good at certain things, but they’re very poor at other things, including sometimes the same things. So for example, today’s systems can get gold medals in the International Maths Olympiad, really hard problems, but sometimes can still make mistakes on elementary maths if you pose the question in a certain way. A true general intelligence system shouldn’t have that kind of jaggedness.”
Demis Hassabis founded Deepmind in 2010 which was later acquired by Google.
