Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis is pushing for a U.S.-led AI watchdog

Demis Hassabis proposed a public-private watchdog that would screen frontier AI models before U.S. deployment, funded by the industry

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Google $GOOGL DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called Tuesday for the U.S. to establish an AI standards body modeled on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the private, industry-funded watchdog that polices Wall Street under Securities and Exchange Commission oversight.

Hassabis, a Nobel laureate, laid out the plan in an essay he published Tuesday on X $TWTR under the title "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age." He said "urgent action" was needed to address risks tied to artificial general intelligence, which he described as probably only a few short years away. "We've already seen the........

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