Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now
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. The article Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now appeared first on The
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Published: 14 July 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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