New Delhi, July 15 -- a standards body modeled on FINRA that would review frontier AI models before their release, staffed by technical experts and funded by the labs building the systems it assesses.

The proposal responds directly to criticism of recent ad hoc safety evaluations, including scrutiny of Anthropic's Mythos model and OpenAI's Sol system, which drew questions about the depth of technical review and the opacity of recommendations that labs were not required to follow. Under Hassabis's plan, the body would hold a 30-day window to assess models before each release - short by most regulatory standards, but considerably longer than existing informal pre-release evaluations.

"The strength of this approach is it would be technical...