Chris Hughes proposes ‘Office of AI Supervision’ to regulate AI labs

Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s co-founders, is calling for the creation of a new government body called the “Office of AI Supervision” that would place regulatory teams directly inside the world’s most advanced AI laboratories. The proposal, laid out in a Financial Times opinion piece, envisions a model borrowed from the financial sector, where embedded examiners have been a fixture of bank oversight for decades. The core idea is straightforward: put government staff inside companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind for fixed three-year rotations. After those three years, the regulators move on, replaced by fresh teams. The rotation mechanism is designed to prevent the cozy relationships that tend to develop when the same watchdogs monitor the same companies indefinitely, a problem regulators call “capture.” How banking oversight became an AI blueprint The three-year term limit is a deliberate design choice. In banking, one of the persistent criticisms of embedded supervision is that examiners start to see the world through the institution’s eyes. Rotating staff on a fixed schedule is meant to keep that dynamic in check, ensuring regulators maintain an outsider’s skepti...