- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts AGI will arrive within a few years, comparing it to the discovery of electricity or fire.
- He proposes a new U.S. Frontier AI Standards Body, modeled after FINRA, to evaluate frontier AI models before deployment.
- The plan calls for pre-release testing that could eventually become mandatory for the most capable systems.
For the second time this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicted artificial general intelligence would arrive before the end of the decade. In a blog post published Tuesday, he said AGI is “probably only a few short years away” and could rival the impact of electricity or fire.
“When we look back on this time in the decades to come, I think we will realise we were standing in the foothills of the singularity,” Hassabis wrote. He warned that AI capabilities are advancing faster than society’s ability to manage the risks, citing Cybersecurity threats and potential biological, nuclear, and national security dangers.
Consequently, Hassabis proposed creating a U.S. Frontier AI Standards Body modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The federally supervised public-private partnership would be funded primarily by the AI industry and staffed by independent experts to evaluate frontier models before deployment.
“The rapid progress we’re seeing in AI requires a new approach to testing frontier AI model capabilities that is dynamic, adaptable, and rigorous,” he wrote. The proposal follows similar calls from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for federal oversight of advanced AI systems.
Meanwhile, Hassabis stressed that the world has a limited window to establish common standards before AGI arrives. “What we collectively do now will determine how the next phase of civilisation unfolds,” he wrote.
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