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Microsoft President Brad Smith called for urgent, binding regulation of artificial intelligence, arguing that the United Kingdom is better positioned than the United States and the European Union to lead global safety rules. He believes voluntary commitments are insufficient and that advanced systems need independent testing and mechanisms to shut them down when control is lost.
OpenAI confirmed that discussions about AI safety have been ongoing for weeks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, alongside calls to establish an independent standards body and a mechanism for verifying the safety of advanced models. This comes amid warnings about antitrust-law risks and opposition within the U.S. administration to tighter regulation out of concern for maintaining competition with China.