Demis Hassabis spoke at COP26 in the week before 12 November 2021 about how AI can potentially help with the climate crisis.

True if records show Hassabis attended COP26 in Glasgow in the week or so before 2021-11-12 and spoke there, at an official or side event, about AI's potential to help with climate change. Acceptable records are event programmes, recordings or news coverage. Mostly true if he spoke at a COP26-associated event in Glasgow at a slightly different time or under a slightly different framing. Mixed if he attended but there is no record of him speaking on AI and climate, or if he spoke only remotely. Mostly false if he appeared only by video at an unrelated event. False if records show he did not attend or participate in COP26.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Climate Change AI

   “Climate Change AI presented multiple side events at the 2021 UN Climate Change Climate Change Conference (COP26). All events were held in a hybrid format, both virtually and in Glasgow.”

2. E2 Climate Change AI @ COP26 Climate Change AI · 12 January 2022

   “CCAI's events at the November conference continued to provide scientific input to policymakers on AI's relationship with climate change.”

3. E3 AI Could be Part of Answer to Climate Crisis, Google DeepMind Chair Says Dow Jones (republished by Tiger Brokers) · 14 October 2026

   “0953 GMT - Artificial intelligence could help address the climate crisis, says Demis Hassabis, chief scientist at Alphabet and co-founder and chair of Google DeepMind.”

4. E4 PM speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet: 15 November 2021 GOV.UK (UK Prime Minister's Office) · 15 November 2021

   “The other day I met Demis Hassabis of Deep Mind, which is an extraordinary company located near King’s Cross, and he told me about AI”

5. E5 PM speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet: 15 November 2021 GOV.UK (UK Prime Minister's Office) · 15 November 2021

   “It is already being used to predict where the wind will blow and therefore where is the optimal place to locate your turbines and to predict any maintenance issues before they arise.”

E1 and E2 cover only Climate Change AI's own COP26 side events. That Hassabis is not named there does not show he skipped COP26 or spoke nowhere else. E4 shows the Prime Minister met Hassabis "the other day" and that Hassabis told him about AI; E5, from the same speech, describes AI uses in wind power without attributing them to Hassabis. However, the speech gives no date or place for the meeting and does not link it to COP26 or Glasgow. E3 dates from 2026 and does not mention COP26, so no item confirms or rules out that he spoke at COP26 in the week before 12 November 2021.