Global Regulation, AI Safety, and Preparing for AGI

As frontier AI becomes more powerful, how can society balance its extraordinary promise with the safeguards needed to use it responsibly?

In this episode of AI Sidebar, Irene Liu talks with Tom Lue, Vice President of Frontier AI Global Affairs at Google DeepMind and the company’s first general counsel, about the rapidly evolving global AI policy landscape. Lue discusses how AI policy has changed since he joined DeepMind, why shared standards and safety frameworks matter, and what it means to prepare for AGI. Irene and Tom also explore open models, public-private governance, and AI’s potential to advance science, health, education, and climate resilience while keeping humans at the center.

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:48) AI Policy Then and Now
(00:02:27) The Global AI Policy Landscape
(00:05:09) How AI Attitudes Differ Around the World
(00:07:01) Declining Attitudes Towards AI
(00:09:30) Frontier Safety, Frameworks, and Standards
(00:13:02) Public-Private Standards and the Role of Government
(00:15:35) Building a Global Framework
(00:17:37) Helping Policymakers Keep Pace
(00:20:30) Existing Law and AI Liability
(00:21:57) Open Models and Open Source Trade-Offs
(00:25:11) Balancing Open Models With Responsible Deployment
(00:26:17) Preparing for AGI
(00:27:43) What AGI Means for Legal and Policy Teams
(00:29:22) Optimism for the Future in the Age of AI
(00:31:58) Conclusion

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