# Hassabis Built DeepMind to Control AI. He Lost Control Instead.

- slug: 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 ...

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