Demis Hassabis
AI Kill Switch Act vs Open Weights: Can You Shut Down a File?
1,238 AI staff asked Washington to slow the frontier. Every mechanism proposed works at release — the only moment an open release can be touched.
Open weights are a weapon now — one country funds them, another wants to gate them
DeepSeek closed a ~$7.4B round with China's state AI fund holding the only voting rights, funding open weights like national infrastructure. The same week, Demis Hassabis called for a FINRA-style body to screen frontier models before release, open or closed. Plus: the twist where the country bankrolling the giveaway floats locking down its own frontier models.