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Hassabis Proposes FINRA-Like AI Regulatory Body, Draws Broad Industry Backing

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  1. Version 4 2026-07-22 02:13 UTC · 36 items

    Two concrete developments this pass. First, OpenAI's CAISI proposal has advanced legislatively — NIST's AI Testing Office has been allocated $20M [^41253] — giving the previously paper-stage proposal real funding tracti…

  2. Version 3 2026-07-21 02:06 UTC · 30 items

    Three substantive additions this pass. First, OpenAI moved from expressing support to proposing its own distinct mandatory federal mechanism — CAISI — with annual audits and incident reporting, creating a concrete polic…

  3. Version 2 2026-07-16 18:23 UTC · 21 items

    Two substantive additions this pass. First, observers identified similarity between Hassabis's proposal and an earlier proposal by Mark Thomas published at Lawfare [^40885], establishing intellectual precedent and sugge…

  4. Version 1 2026-07-15 18:10 UTC · 15 items

    Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, has published a proposal for a U.S.-led self-regulatory body modeled on FINRA to test frontier AI models for cyber, biological, and deception risks before public release [^40724][…