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Demis Hassabis, “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age”

Hassabis proposes a U.S.-initiated, industry-funded but federally overseen frontier-AI standards body that would independently classify frontier models, receive them up to 30 days before release, conduct evolving cyber, biological, deception, and agentic-behaviour evaluations, and eventually require qualifying models to pass before U.S. deployment.

Analysis byAIImpactLab Editorial Desk

PublishedJuly 14, 2026

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The framework also calls for held-out tests, third-party auditors, post-release vulnerability management, and authority to coordinate a development slowdown if risks become intolerable. Hassabis warns that present cyber incidents may foreshadow biological, nuclear, and recursively self-improving-system risks, but this should be classified as a personal proposal by a leading AI-company CEO, not adopted Google policy or an empirically established capability timeline.

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