The CEO of Google DeepMind said a more advanced AI is just around the corner — and humanity needs to prepare as soon as possible. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that AI could make wide swaths of jobs disappear, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said half of entry-level white-collar work could vanish in the next half-decade. Recently, the executives pulled back the doomerism talk. During the fireside chat, Hassabis said some of his peers in the industry are being "way too certain" about their predictions. But ...