Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO and Nobel laureate; author of the proposal and its chief advocate, using his stature to lobby the U.S. government and rival labs directly.
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U.S. Government / Trump administration
Proposed overseer of the FINRA-style body in an SEC-analog role; Hassabis has briefed the administration for months, seeking it to spearhead the effort.
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Frontier AI labs (Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic)
Would fund the body and voluntarily submit models 30 days pre-release, and eventually be required to pass testing to deploy in the U.S. - the entities whose behavior the body would govern.
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Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO)
Fellow lab leader who has separately called for binding regulation via an FAA-style agency able to block unsafe models; jointly urged G7 leaders with Hassabis at a closed-door Evian session about a month earlier.
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Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO)
Separately called for a similar international standards body in a Financial Times article earlier in July 2026, signaling cross-lab alignment on the need for oversight.