The speaker says DeepMind's strategy, associated with Demis Hassabis, was to reach advanced AI first with Google's backing, then use its lead to slow down and address safety before competitors caught up.

“to make sure that everything works out well so basically all of these people sort of trust themselves more than they trust everyone else and have therefore convinced themselves that even though these risks are real the best way to deal with them is for them to go as fast as possible and win the race and this is you know deep mind's plan so to speak demis sabas his plan was basically be there get there first with this big corporation google and then”

“because you have such a lead over everybody else you can sort of slow down and get all the safety stuff right and sort of make sure that everything goes well before everybody else catches up.”