Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis Warns AGI May Be Only Years Away, Calls for U.S.-Led Frontier AI Standards Body

Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis has argued that artificial general intelligence could arrive within a few years and proposed a new U.S.-led "Frontier AI Standards Body" to police the most powerful models before they reach the market. The Nobel laureate laid out the case in an essay titled *A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age*, saying humanity now sits in the "foothills" of a transformative period he compared to an accelerated industrial revolution.