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Prominent AI Scientists Make Unprecedented Public Claims on AGI and Consciousness

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  1. Version 2 2026-06-09 18:40 UTC · 38 items

    New items this pass are predominantly social media amplification and a Sherwood News piece confirming Hassabis's '3 to 4 years away' framing — no new substantive angles, perspectives, or rebuttals emerged. The thread's …

  2. Version 1 2026-06-08 08:10 UTC · 33 items

    Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, stated publicly that 'we are standing in the foothills of the singularity now' and placed AGI arrival around 2030. [^26493][^19229] Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and former Goog…