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Signal & State

Demis Hassabis wants America to police the world’s AI. Xi Jinping will offer a rival answer on Friday.

China's mooted shift on open-source AI cannot survive American safety testing.

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Phillip de Wet
Jul 14, 2026
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Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind co-founder and one of the individuals most directly responsible for where we are right now, technically and philosophically both, has a plan.

That plan is America.

On Tuesday, Hassabis published a new manifesto calling for a frontier AI standards body on Substack. (Yes, really, Axios confirms it’s him.)

“By safely stewardin…

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