AI Could Cure All Diseases In 10 Years, Says Google DeepMind Chief Hassabis
Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis predicts that new AI models could cure all diseases and eventually put an end to all diseases.
Published : April 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM IST
Hyderabad: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, predicted that the latest AI models could not only cure diseases but might put an end to all diseases altogether. His statement soon received unexpected support from one of his market rivals, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, who even called him a “genius”.
During the CBS’ "60 Minutes" interview on Sunday, April 20, 2025, Hassabis mentioned that using the new AI models, the time and efforts taken to develop a single drug can be brought down significantly “from years to maybe months or maybe even weeks.” AI would “revolutionise human health”, and Hassabis thinks one day we can cure all diseases with the help of AI.
Had a really great chat with Scott Pelley @60Minutes about AI & its future. I’ve always believed AI could be the ultimate tool to help us advance scientific progress and better understand the universe around us, and perhaps one day even solve all disease: https://t.co/sbQZHbpVVZ
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) April 22, 2025
When Hassabis was asked if AI could lead to the end of all diseases, the 48-year-old British scientist mentioned that it's attainable and could be reached within the next decade or so.
Aravind Srivinas, CEO of Perplexity, turned to his X handle and shared a bit of the interview video. His caption mentioned Hassabis as a “genius” and should be given all possible resources to make it happen.
Demis is a genius and he should be given all resources in the world to make this happen. pic.twitter.com/S97PSjz4jI
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) April 21, 2025
Notably, Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search engine which directly rivals Google. The AI company also plans to introduce Comet, a new agentic web browser which would challenge the dominance of Google Chrome.
AI saves billions of years
In the interview, Hassabis mentioned that the new AI models developed by DeepMind were able to complete the mapping of 200 million protein structures within a year, which would have taken "a billion years of PhD time".
Recently, while speaking with Reid Hoffman, CEO of LinkedIn, in the ‘Possible’ podcast, the British scientist, Hassabis, said, “If we can reduce the time it takes to discover a protein structure from. It used to take a PhD student, their entire PhD, as a rule of thumb, to discover one protein structure. So, four or five years. And there are 200 million proteins known to science. And we folded them all in one year."
" i think maybe in the next 10, 15 years we can actually have a real crack at solving all disease."
— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) April 17, 2025
nobel prize winner and deepmind ceo demis hassabis on how ai can revolutionize drug discovery doing "science at digital speed." pic.twitter.com/dYBbM0TKfE
"So we did a billion years of PhD time in one year... is another way you can think of it. And then gave it to the world freely to use. And two million researchers around the world have used it. And we spun out a new company, Isomorphic, to try and go further downstream now and develop the drugs needed, and try and reduce that time," he added.
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