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OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us
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Representatives for OpenAI and Anthropic told a British parliamentary hearing that voluntary pledges were no longer enough to ensure safety and that new laws should be introduced, deepening a public schism with Google DeepMind and Meta, both of which declined to back new legislation.
Key facts
- The Business, Innovation, Science, and Trade Committee, comprising a cross-party panel of MPs, held an evidence session on Tuesday with appearances from four frontier AI firms, four former staff
- OpenAI vice president Tom Duff Gordon was more cautious but still supportive, backing a statutory framework and an international convention
- Duff Gordon said “there should be some elements that should be mandatory,” starting with incident reporting
- Exposing this divide in a second jurisdiction was the point, according to select committee chair Liam Byrne
Summary
The Business, Innovation, Science, and Trade Committee, comprising a cross-party panel of MPs, held an evidence session on Tuesday with appearances from four frontier AI firms, four former staff of the firms turned whistleblowers and senior British civil servants. “The rules should be binding,” Anthropic’s head of Europe Liam Booth-Smith told the committee, when asked if the company’s view was that AI safety now needs a statutory framework. OpenAI vice president Tom Duff Gordon was more cautious but still supportive, backing a statutory framework and an international convention. However, their rivals would not follow.