DeepMind CEO again pushes for a frontier AI standards body

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Tuesday reiterated his push for an AI industry self-regulation effort, led by the US government, that is particularly focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI) and national security. But it is precisely that focus on national security that may make the results of such an effort, assuming it happens, less than palatable outside of the US. “The rapid progress we’re seeing in AI requires a new approach to testing frontier AI model capabilities that is dy