ClaimsDemis Hassabis

“We have a lot of processes in place about making sure that only if you need them, those people who need access have access.”

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind 28 February 2024 Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Factual AI safety and alignment

Hassabis said that "we" have a lot of processes in place to make sure that only people who need access have access.

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Reasoning

Internal access-control processes are known only to the company.

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Demis Hassabis, “Hassabis said that "we" have a lot of processes in place to make sure that only people who need access have access.” (said 28 February 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_2ad9fae035d5, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_2ad9fae035d5

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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