Demis Hassabis warns of AI model that could ‘break the world,’ Satya Nadella replies

Demis Hassabis has spent his career building AI. On Tuesday, the Google DeepMind CEO argued it's time someone started policing it—and that the United States should hold the badge. In a manifesto titled "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age," the Nobel laureate laid out his most concrete regulatory pitch yet: a new standards body empowered to test the world's most advanced models before they ship, and, if the risk demanded it, to coordinate an industry-wide slowdown.Then came the endorsement that mattered. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called it "an important piece" and said the field needs more of this kind of thinking. His framing was the sharpest of the bunch—the goal, he wrote, is a frontier ecosystem that promotes innovation and choice "while avoiding any one model drop that breaks the world." Coming from the boss of OpenAI's biggest backer, that's not idle applause.