Demis Hassabis, CEO and cofounder of Google DeepMind, called for a global AI watchdog led by the US, one that could test frontier models before launch and trigger an industry-wide pause if any are judged too dangerous, according to The Verge. Hassabis argued in a blog post that the US is the right place to set worldwide standards because of its economic and technical clout, proposing a body modeled on FINRA and staffed by independent experts and open-source representatives. He spent months building quiet support, briefing the White House, other AI labs, and European governments, and wants the group operating before year-end, per Axios. It lands days after a separate warning from economists and tech figures, among them Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark and ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt, that leaders must reckon with AI’s economic fallout.
