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OpinionDemis Hassabis · XRelayed· @demishassabis·· 2026-09-13

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Demis Hassabis responds to Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier AI

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Demis Hassabis responded to Dario Amodei's new essay calling for the AI industry to slow frontier-model development. Hassabis said the direction was right but the details needed work. He also pointed to his own recent proposal for a frontier AI industry standards body as another way to address this critical moment. Amodei proposed a three-part slowdown plan and said Anthropic would unilaterally begin with the first step, giving third-party evaluators permanent employee-level access to verify safety measures, report incidents, and assess alignment in models under training.

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