Hassabis: U.S. must create AI watchdog with model-screening power
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- Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO, is calling on the U.S. to establish a new AI watchdog with the power to screen the world's most advanced models.
- The proposed watchdog would also have authority to coordinate an industry-wide slowdown if AI dangers mount, per Hassabis's plan.
- Hassabis, a Nobel laureate, is the figure behind Google's Gemini AI system.
- Hassabis lays out his regulatory vision in a personal written piece (article text truncated).
Why it matters: Hassabis — a Nobel laureate and one of the most prominent AI lab leaders — is personally lobbying the U.S. to create a screening body with teeth, including the power to slow the entire industry if risks escalate. That gives the proposal unusual credibility coming from inside Big Tech, not just academia or government critics.
