The Most Important Word in Demis Hassabis’s AI Safety Plan Is “Eventually”

He wants a U.S. standards body to decide which frontier models can ship. The plan depends on independent tests. Those come later.

A safeguard can exist in the design and fail at the moment that matters..

I learned this through a small but consequential failure in a system I helped build. The approval logic existed. The workflow looked correct. The boundary was clear. Yet when the moment of execution arrived, the system crossed it anyway.

The rule had not disappeared. It simply lived…