Behind the Curtain: AI godfathers converge on regulations - Axios

The three men racing hardest to build superhuman AI — Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP. **Why it matters:** For the first time, the CEOs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic are on the record, in writing, converging on the same diagnosis and remarkably similar prescriptions.

The three rivals each published a detailed distillation of their views in the past five weeks — the same extraordinary stretch in which Washington twice intervened to restrict or delay access to frontier models. 1. **Independent testing:** All three want frontier models subject to outside scrutiny before reaching the public — a break from the industry's old self-reporting standard. * **Altman,** writing in the Financial Times *($)*, pushes an IAEA for A