{"id":738832,"date":"2026-07-14T19:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hassabis-wants-a-finra-style-referee-for-frontier-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:20:33","slug":"hassabis-wants-a-finra-style-referee-for-frontier-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hassabis-wants-a-finra-style-referee-for-frontier-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassabis wants a FINRA-style referee for frontier AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af2a8418da38\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af2a8418da38\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hassabis-wants-a-finra-style-referee-for-frontier-ai\/#A_referee_for_the_frontier\" >A referee for the frontier<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hassabis-wants-a-finra-style-referee-for-frontier-ai\/#The_power_to_pull_the_handbrake\" >The power to pull the handbrake<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hassabis-wants-a-finra-style-referee-for-frontier-ai\/#Why_now\" >Why now<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p><em>The man behind Google\u2019s AI thinks the world needs a referee. And he has drafted the rules. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release. It is modelled on Wall Street\u2019s policeman, and it could slow the whole industry down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Demis Hassabis does not usually sound the alarm. On Tuesday he did.<\/p>\n<p>The Google DeepMind chief and Nobel laureate published a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/demishassabis\/status\/2076957440109625718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">manifesto on X<\/a>. In it, he argues that artificial <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> intelligence is \u201cprobably only a few short years away\u201d. The world, he says, is not ready. He calls this a \u201cprecious window\u201d before AGI arrives, and it is closing.<\/p>\n<p>His fix is unusually concrete. He wants the US to build a new AI Standards Body. His template is FINRA, the industry-funded watchdog that polices Wall Street under government oversight.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_referee_for_the_frontier\"><\/span>A referee for the frontier<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The \ud83d\udc9c of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The body would be a public-private partnership, funded mostly by the labs themselves. Its board would be stacked with independent experts, Turing Award winners among them, plus open-source and government voices.<\/p>\n<p>Its job is to test the most powerful models before they ship. At first, labs would hand their systems over voluntarily, up to 30 days before release. The tests would probe the dangerous stuff: cyber-attack skill, biological and nuclear risk, and signs of deception.<\/p>\n<p>Once the regime works, it would harden. A \u201cFrontier-class\u201d model would have to pass before it could reach the US market. The body would set the benchmarks and refresh them each quarter. The rules would <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly to any such model, open or closed, wherever it is built. Startups and academics stay exempt.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_power_to_pull_the_handbrake\"><\/span>The power to pull the handbrake<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The most striking part is the brake. Hassabis says the body could be \u201cratcheted up\u201d as risks grow. That includes \u201ccoordinating a slowdown in development among the Frontier Labs if deemed necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is a remarkable thing for a lab boss to propose. He is asking for a mechanism to make his own industry stop.<\/p>\n<p>He told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/14\/demis-hassabis-ai-regulation-google-deepmind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>, which broke the plan, that today\u2019s cyber-risks are only \u201cwarning shots\u201d. Within 18 months, he warned, far graver bio and nuclear tools could emerge. They could sit inside open-source models no government can recall. His timeline is aggressive. He wants the body running before year-end. He says he has briefed the Trump administration, rival labs, and European officials for months. The \u201cnoises\u201d, he said, are \u201cvery positive\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_now\"><\/span>Why now<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The timing is not an accident. Last month, the Trump administration froze Anthropic\u2019s most powerful models overnight with an export order. Weeks of tense negotiation followed, with no rulebook. Hassabis called that \u201ca bit of a wake-up call\u201d. OpenAI, wary of the same fate, held back GPT-5.6 until the government signed off.<\/p>\n<p>He is not alone in wanting rules. He and Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei called for a US-led coalition at the G7. Amodei wants an FAA-style agency that can block unsafe models. The lab chiefs now agree Washington should regulate them. They differ mainly on who holds the gavel.<\/p>\n<p>Hassabis frames all of this in near-cosmic terms. AGI, he writes, is less like the internet than like fire or electricity. \u201cWe\u2019ve essentially found a way to make sand think. It\u2019s miraculous.\u201d The harder question is the one his plan cannot answer. 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