# Can Humanity Stay in Charge of Advanced AI by Demis Hassabis > "How do we ensure that we can stay in charge of [increasingly autonomous AI] systems, control them, interpret what they're doing, understand them, put the right guardrails in place that are not movable by very highly capable systems that are self improving?" > **— Demis Hassabis**, *2025, TIME interview* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** "How do we ensure that we can stay in charge of those systems, control them, interpret what they're doing, understand them, put the right guardrails in place that are not movable by very highly capable systems that are self improving?" - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Brackets clarify those systems from Hassabis's immediately preceding description of increasingly autonomous, agent-based AI. The full question and its guardrail scope are retained. [Direct source](https://time.com/7280740/demis-hassabis-interview/). No timecode is asserted. - **Full quotation and context:** [Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI and AI in the Military](https://time.com/7280740/demis-hassabis-interview/) — The interview supplies the complete question about remaining in charge of increasingly capable systems. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Demis Hassabis|Demis Hassabis]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] - [[wiki/AI Narrative Systems|AI Narrative Systems]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "How do we ensure that we can stay in charge of [increasingly autonomous AI] systems, control them, interpret what they're doing, understand them, put the right guardrails in place that are not movable by very highly capable systems that are self improving?" — Demis Hassabis, 2025, TIME interview https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-demis-hassabis-humanity-charge-advanced-ai ```