# Demis Hassabis
**Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Scientific Discovery / Cognitive Science
**Doc Type:** Person Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[wiki/Google DeepMind|Google DeepMind]], [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]], [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]]
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## Definition
**Demis Hassabis** is an artificial-intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind. His work connects general-purpose learning systems, planning, game-playing, and AI-assisted scientific discovery.
## Corpus Context
[[articles/Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation|Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation]] places Hassabis and [[wiki/Google DeepMind|Google DeepMind]] in the article's laboratory lineage because their systems demonstrate that capabilities formerly treated as uniquely human can be decomposed into trainable architectures and objective-driven computation. The article uses those systems as evidence for tractability, not as proof that any present system is conscious.
## Sources / Provenance
- [Google DeepMind — about](https://deepmind.google/about/)
- [Nobel Prize facts — Demis Hassabis](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/hassabis/facts/)
## See Also
[[wiki/Google DeepMind|Google DeepMind]] · [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]] · [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] · [[wiki/AlphaFold|AlphaFold]] · [[wiki/Reinforcement Learning|Reinforcement Learning]]