{"id":3737,"date":"2026-07-14T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:38:20","slug":"google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-global-ai-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3737","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Demis Hassabis says it\u2019s time for a global AI watchdog \u2014 led by the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Writing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/framework-frontier-ai-dawning-new-age-demis-hassabis-cngse\/\">blog post<\/a>, the Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder said the US should lead the initiative, arguing that the country is the best place to set global standards \u201cgiven its economic and technical standing.\u201d The organization, which could resemble existing regulators like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, would be made up of leading independent experts and representatives from open-source communities and would have the authority to evaluate frontier models before they are released and coordinate an industry-wide slowdown if they were judged too risky to deploy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The blog, titled \u201cA Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,\u201d argued that the need for global regulation is becoming more urgent as AI systems grow in sophistication. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u201cis probably only a few short years away,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we look back on this time in the decades to come, I think we will realise we were standing in the foothills of the singularity &#8211; nothing less than the dawning of a new age for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/14\/demis-hassabis-ai-regulation-google-deepmind?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_source=x&amp;utm_medium=owned_social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mrfcid=202607146a4b28424486741cce8ae26d\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>, Hassabis has spent months quietly building support for his proposal, including briefing the Trump administration, other AI labs, and European officials, and hopes to have the new organization up and running before the end of the year. He told <em>Axios<\/em> that \u201cthe noises I\u2019ve been hearing [from the Trump administration] are very positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The proposal is the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/934260\/google-io-ai-singularity-demis-hassabis\">effort<\/a> by Hassabis and other industry leaders to establish a coherent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/782752\/ai-global-red-lines-extreme-risk-united-nations\">framework<\/a> for governing increasingly powerful AI systems, as well as mitigate the risks they may pose. As of yet, there is no global set of rules governing AI specifically, nor a comprehensive set of rules nationally in the US. Hassabis, the joint winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AI-based protein prediction, also signed his name to a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/942956\/ai-biological-weapons-open-letter-congress\">calling for tougher protections against AI-aided bioweapons<\/a> production last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Hassabis\u2019 most recent comments follow a statement from top economists and tech titans \u2014 including Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/digitaleconomy.stanford.edu\/news\/wemustactnow\/\">urging<\/a> world leaders to take the looming economic impacts of AI seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/965270\/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-global-ai-watchdog\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous. 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