AI TRENDS | DeepMind CEO Calls for U.S.-Led Global AI Regulator With Power to Review Top Models

DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis called on the United States to create a new AI regulatory body that would be able to review the world’s most advanced AI models and coordinate an industrywide slowdown if risks intensify. According to Jin10, Axios reported that Hassabis said it is time for a more “systematic” approach to AI regulation—funded by the industry, staffed by world-class technical experts, and accountable to the U.S. government. Hassabis said current AI-driven cybersecurity risks are only a “warning signal.” He said that within the next 18 months, these capabilities, along with more serious biological and nuclear security risks, could appear in open-source models that no government can control. He also emphasized that risks would not only come from open-source models, but also from more powerful proprietary models that major AI labs may release in the future. The report said Hassabis had been quietly promoting the plan for months and, before making it public, had communicated with the Trump administration, leaders of other AI labs, and European officials. Hassabis said the feedback he heard was “very positive.”