Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis issues call to action on AI safety standards

Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis issues call to action on AI safety standards

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says only the United States is up to the task of keeping AI safe – but it's unclear why technology rivals, notably China, would heed an American standards body. Hassabis has called for a framework for testing frontier models, on the grounds that he believes progress has been faster than expected and artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive imminently. He argues that such work should be led by the US be…