The discussions «are ongoing» and are happening «with or without» the Trump administration, CNN says.
An industry standards body seems framed around Google’s Chief Scientist Demis Hassabis’ proposal from July this year, ideas that were referenced in Amodei’s «pacing» essay just a few days ago.
This body would be loosely based on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority which is a self-regulatory organization for brokerages and exchanges governed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
According to Hassabis, it would have an independent board and be staffed with «leading technical experts and open source representatives,» and be charged with «developing assessment protocols» for frontier AI. Labs would then submit their models for pre-release evaluation.
Sam Altman said in his X post yesterday that «we think shared standards for misalignment, monitoring, and safety will lead to better outcomes,» and that the industry must take independent steps toward regulation as «we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence.»
«We look forward to collaborating with our colleagues across the industry to formulate the best version of these,» Altman wrote, in the most direct support of such an organization outside of Google and Anthropic yet.
Read more: CNN and The Information. Hassabis’ X post, Altman’s X posts. Discussion on Digg.