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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.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected blaming warnings from AI leaders for growing public skepticism and regulatory hardening, saying the deeper problem is an accumulated crisis of trust between the public, companies, and governments. Amodei defended regulation of the AI sector, saying appropriate rules could limit the technology’s risks and the influence of major companies without closing the field to competitors or open-weight models.