Demis Hassabis on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

Demis Hassabis

Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment. This is also why we recently put out our proposal for an industry-wide standards body for frontier AI.

AI Verified (Sep 12, 2026)

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Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis), X post, September 12, 2026 (UTC): “Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment. This is also why we recently put out our proposal for an industry-wide standards body for frontier AI.” The post quote-tweets Dario Amodei’s proposal for third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to AI-lab systems.

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AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says Dario’s direction is correct and identifies the industry-wide standards-body proposal as the reason for Hassabis’s own related proposal. This directly addresses the statement’s independent-evaluator access requirement and makes the link relevant. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified The vote author is Demis Hassabis, matching the quote author. He says Dario’s direction is correct and links it to his own standards-body proposal, supporting the statement; the recorded answer “for” is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified The supplied X post is attributed to Demis Hassabis and dated September 12, 2026 UTC; the accessible syndicated record contains the stored wording exactly and shows it endorsing the direction of Dario Amodei’s employee-like evaluator-access proposal. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

Resolving these questions obviously cannot and should not be left to technologists alone. It requires every part of society to come together to help define this new chapter.

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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

Frontier labs would initially share their models with the body voluntarily, up to 30 days before release, for safety testing that probes dangerous cyber, biological and deception capabilities.

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Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI

The time has come for a more systematic approach to AI regulation — funded by the industry, staffed by world-class technical experts, and answerable to the U.S. government.

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