# Hassabis Built DeepMind to Control AI. He Lost Control Instead. - Date: 2026-03-30 - Category: Artificial Intelligence When Google acquired DeepMind in 2014, its co-founder Demis Hassabis did something unusual: he made the sale conditional on governance controls, refusing to let a for-profit corporation have the final say over how his technology would be deployed, [according to Sebastian Mallaby's account in The ... ---