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The US government should stand up a federally overseen, FINRA-like Standards Body to test frontier AI systems for dangerous capabilities, beginning with voluntary pre-release review before moving toward formal regulation.

Demis Hassabis proposes a US Standards Body modeled on FINRA to develop assessment protocols for frontier AI, starting as voluntary review up to 30 days pre-release and formalizing into law once proven effective. ✦ AI generated

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Initially, Frontier Labs would voluntarily share models with the Standards Body for review up to 30 days before release. Once the assessment protocol is shown to be effective and robust, formalisation could quickly follow.

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Over 1,000 employees from frontier AI labs have cosigned a statement requesting the U.S. government support an international effort to develop tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development, due to the risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.1,171 employees of frontier AI companies · Latent Space · conf 80%

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Government-mandated training techniques are a dead end: any simple rule dictating techniques would freeze in place what will be obsolete in two years, be impossible to enforce, and ban-specific rules just push labs toward worse workaround methods, so outcomes should be incentivized rather than techniques prescribed.Zvi Mowshowitz · The Cognitive Revolution · conf 60%

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gives example → Benchmarking dangerous capabilities now requires adversarially hardened infrastructure, not just model-side safeguards.AI News · Latent Space