Hassabis Calls for Regulation of Frontier AI
Hesamation · x · 2026-07-15
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis stated that governments should intervene in frontier AI, requiring a slowdown if risks escalate.
He emphasized that this regulatory framework should apply to frontier-level models regardless of their country of origin or whether they are open-source or closed-source. The commentator speculated that this could foreshadow future regulations targeting open-source frontier models, potentially even restricting the uploading of fine-tuned frontier models to platforms like Hugging Face.
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