(CNN) — Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s AI research arm DeepMind and a Nobel Prize laureate, isn’t too worried about an AI “jobpocalypse.”

Instead of fretting over AI replacing jobs, he’s worried about the technology falling into the wrong hands – and a lack of guardrails to keep sophisticated, autonomous AI models under control.

“Both of those risks are important, challenging ones,” he said in an interview with CNN’s Anna Stewart at the SXSW festival in London, which takes place this week.

Last week, the CEO of high-profile AI lab Anthropic had a stark warning about the future of the job landscape, claiming that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs. But Hassabis said he’s most concerned about the potential misuse of what AI developers call “artificial general int

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