OpenAI and Anthropic Back Binding AI Rules in UK Parliament Hearing
OpenAI and Anthropic representatives told a UK parliamentary committee that voluntary safety commitments are insufficient and that binding rules should be enacted. Google DeepMind and Meta declined to endorse a new statutory framework, pointing instead to existing standards and regulators. The session also included whistleblowers and civil servants, and it highlighted disagreements among major AI companies over regulation.
At a Tuesday evidence session of the UK Business, Innovation, Science, and Trade Committee, four frontier AI companies, four former employees turned whistleblowers, and senior civil servants appeared. OpenAI and Anthropic supported binding rules; Google DeepMind emphasized standards, while Meta cited existing regulators. The committee chair said the goal was to expose disagreements among wealthy firms and show voluntary self-regulation is unreliable.
Separately, MI5's director warned in his annual threat update that AI could raise risks from existing or new bioweapons. Civil servants also said the AI Security Institute can test frontier models only when companies voluntarily provide access, and the Cabinet Office permanent secretary agreed the current regime is voluntary.
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... No extra. Need maybe no bullets. Good. Potential issue: "EXPANDED" section asks 2 short paragraphs under 120 words total. We have 2 paragraphs. Good. "drawn ONLY from material above" We used "wealthy firms" from source "wealthiest firms on Earth" paraphrase. "voluntary self-regulation" source phrase? It says "voluntary self-regulation" in quote? Actually source: "that you couldn’t rely on voluntary self-regulation." That's source phrasing. We used "voluntary self-regulation is unreliable." Is that copying source phrasing? It's a common phrase but source has exact. The instruction says never copying source phrasing. We can change to "relying on companies' own promises is insufficient." But that's close to "voluntary commitments are not enough" source. Hmm. Need original wording. Let's revise to avoid exact. "The committee chair said the aim was to reveal disagreements among major firms and to demonstrate that self-policing cannot be trusted." "self-policing" not source. Good. "bind