Google DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis wants the US to set clear standards to determine what qualifies as a Frontier Lab. In a detailed blog post, the Nobel laureate proposed creating an independent regulatory body, similar to those used in the US financial industry, that would assess the world’s most advanced AI models before they are publicly released.
Hassabis’s proposal comes amid the US government’s increased scrutiny of frontier AI models, including Anthropic’s Mythos model and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 that has triggered a debate over how advanced AI should be evaluated before release. Hassabis suggested a 30-day pre-release assessment window for frontier models, which is reportedly longer than the largely voluntary evaluations but shorter than many existing regulatory review processes.
In his post titled ‘A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age’, the AI researcher argues that artificial general intelligence (AGI), systems with human-level cognitive capabilities, could arrive within the next few years, making common safety standards an imperative.
“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 – nothing less than the dawning of a new age for humanity.”
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