# Catastrophic AI Risk Deserves Serious Mitigation by Demis Hassabis > "[The risk of catastrophic AI outcomes is] worth very seriously considering and mitigating against." > **— Demis Hassabis**, *2025, discussion of non-zero catastrophic AI risk* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** "It's worth very seriously considering and mitigating against." - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Brackets replace the excerpt's missing subject with the p(doom) risk being discussed in the Axios interview. Hassabis called his assessment non-zero; no numerical probability is supplied. [Direct source](https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/ai-hassabis-agi-risks-pdoom). No timecode is asserted. - **Full quotation and context:** [Exclusive: Some AI dangers are already real, DeepMind's Hassabis says](https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/ai-hassabis-agi-risks-pdoom) — contains the quoted wording and identifies its publication, interview, testimony, or event context. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Demis Hassabis|Demis Hassabis]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/State-Dependent Catastrophe|State-Dependent Catastrophe]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "[The risk of catastrophic AI outcomes is] worth very seriously considering and mitigating against." — Demis Hassabis, 2025, discussion of non-zero catastrophic AI risk https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-demis-hassabis-catastrophic-ai-deserves-mitigation ```