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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis published a governance manifesto on Tuesday calling for a new "Frontier AI Standards Body" modeled on FINRA, the private, industry-funded watchdog that polices Wall Street under SEC oversight.
Writing that AGI is "probably only a few short years away," Hassabis proposed that frontier labs voluntarily submit their most advanced models for pre-release safety testing up to 30 days before deployment, with the arrangement becoming mandatory for U.S. market access once the protocol proves effective. His timeline is aggressive: the body operational "before year-end." The proposal arrives as the U.S. government has already been acting as an informal gatekeeper for frontier model releases without statutory authority or transparent process; the Anthropic FASCSA designation and the GPT-5.6 pre-release review are both products of that improvised posture.
Whether Hassabis's proposal represents a genuine reckoning with risk, or a strategic effort to shape oversight before it is imposed from outside on less favorable terms, is a question the architecture of whatever body ultimately emerges will answer more clearly, but the idea has been put out there.
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