Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluation protocols for frontier models and could coordinate a slowdown in AI development if needed. Startups and research models would be exempt.

We could be standing "in the foothills of the singularity," the DeepMind CEO writes in a new manifesto.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led AI regulator with power to screen models and pause development, with implications for crypto and tech