AI can be 'end of disease' within next decade, says Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis

Curing all diseases with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) is within reach, according to Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis. He currently heads DeepMind, an AI research laboratory owned by Google's parent Alphabet Inc, as chief executive officer.

In conversation with CBS News' Scott Pelly, Hassabis said that the end of all disease with AI can be achieved within the next decade or so.

The Google DeepMind CEO emphasised on the advances AI has made in human health. DeepMind's AI model was able to decipher 200 million protein structures in one year, compared to years it used to take earlier to do even one. Hassabis and his colleague John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year for this.


The next frontier is now drug development, said Hassabis. "It takes ten years and billions of dollars to design just one drug. We can maybe reduce that down from years to maybe months or maybe even weeks. Which sounds incredible today but that's also what people used to think about protein structures. And it would revolutionise human health, and I think one day maybe we can cure all disease with the help of AI," Hassabis said during his interview with CBS News.

Reacting to the video on X (formerly Twitter), Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas called Hassabis "a genius", and should be "given all resources to make this happen".

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