[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-deepmind-strategist-wants-ai-boxed-in-like-old-trading-algorithms":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},7512,"deepmind-strategist-wants-ai-boxed-in-like-old-trading-algorithms","DeepMind strategist wants AI boxed in like old trading algorithms","A DeepMind VP says AI can't be fully governed, but firms can fence it in with fixed rules like banks used for trading algorithms decades ago.","Google DeepMind's top strategist says the fix for uncontrollable AI is the same one banks used for uncontrollable algorithms: a fence, not a leash.\n\nKareem Ayoub, DeepMind's vice president of AI technical strategy, made the case in an interview with Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie. His point was that nobody can fully govern an AI system the way they might want to. What companies can do instead, he said, is build a fixed perimeter around it - a set of checkable rules the system has to stay inside. Ayoub pointed to banks in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which handled early trading algorithms not by micromanaging every decision but by boxing them into rules that could be audited after the fact.\n\nThat framing sidesteps the messier debate over interpretability - the ongoing struggle to explain why large models produce the outputs they do. Instead of demanding transparency into AI reasoning, a fence-based approach treats the model as a black box and puts the regulation on inputs, outputs, and boundaries. Coming from inside one of the field's biggest labs, it reads as a quiet concession that fully understanding these systems may not happen anytime soon.\n\nWhether a fence is enough depends entirely on how well anyone can specify the rules in advance - and AI's own builders are still arguing about that.","[\"ai\",\"ai-safety\",\"google-deepmind\",\"ai-governance\"]","2026-09-23T23:03:26.000Z","2026-09-24T00:00:19.374Z","2026-09-24T00:00:22.768Z","published",null,[],"ai",[24,26,27,28],"ai-safety","google-deepmind","ai-governance",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fgoogle-deepmind-kareem-ayoub-ai-governance-humanx",0,{"sections":35},[36,40,45,50,55,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100],{"name":37,"slug":24,"count":38,"latest_published_at":39},"AI",4370,"2026-09-24T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":41,"slug":42,"count":43,"latest_published_at":44},"Security","security",719,"2026-09-24T01:24:00.000Z",{"name":46,"slug":47,"count":48,"latest_published_at":49},"Policy","policy",380,"2026-09-23T22:53:43.000Z",{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Deals","deals",220,"2026-09-23T22:00:00.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Hardware","hardware",173,"2026-09-23T23:42:10.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Science","science",135,"2026-09-23T22:45:49.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",116,"2026-09-24T00:51:49.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Software","software",85,"2026-09-23T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",79,"2026-09-22T22:21:13.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Startups","startups",66,"2026-09-23T17:28:38.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Reviews","reviews",27,"2026-09-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]