CEOs and the working class are very divided on how AI will shake up the world. Leaders tout the promise of an enhanced work-life, while employees question the future of their jobs. The CEO of Google’s AI research lab, DeepMind, has a more abstract line of thinking: galaxy exploration and “superhumans”—and perhaps sooner than you may expect. “If everything goes well, then we should be in an era of radical abundance, a kind of golden era,” chief executive Demis Hassabis told Wired in a recent interview. The AI leader said artificial general intelligence (AGI)—algorithms that are just as smart as humans—will be the driving force of this revolution. He said the $600 million giant is “dead on track” to possibly create that technology in the next five to 10 years. While AI agents, chatbots, and copilots are already outperforming human workers, it begs the question of whether advanced AGI models will usher in a jobs armageddon. The DeepMind CEO hit back at that claim: “What generally tends to happen is new jobs are created that utilize new tools or technologies and are actually better,” he insisted. “We’ll have these incredible tools that supercharge our productivity and actually almost make us a little bit superhuman.” “If that all happens, then it should be an era of maximum human flourishing, where we travel to the stars and colonize the galaxy. I think that will begin to happen in 2030.”

Full interview : Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, space travel, robotics and more.