DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late
14-07-2026 18:44 via theregister.com

DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late

Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis is calling for the US to establish a robust frontier AI model review process because, according to him, artificial general intelligence (AGI) “is probably only a few short years away" and we've got to figure it out before it's too late. That “probably” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in Hassabis’ lengthy, early-morning Tuesday post on X. Like commercially viable fusion power and practical fault-tolerant quantum computing, AGI seems perp
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