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.<br /> 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 Decoder. [...]
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