Hassabis Backs Dario's AI Slowdown Essay, Reiterates Call for Industry Standards Body
demishassabis · x · 2026-09-13
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis publicly endorsed Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," saying the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment even if details need working through. Hassabis tied this to DeepMind's own recent proposal for an industry-wide standards body for frontier AI. The quoted original announcement: Anthropic is unilaterally committing to give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify safety measures, report incidents, and assess alignment during training.
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