# Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-ceo-hassabis-says-nobody-in-the-world-knows-what-happens-next-so-cautious-optimism-means-building-guardrails-now/>
> Published: 2026-07-14 11:49:03+00:00

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.

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