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OpenAI and Anthropic tell UK lawmakers voluntary AI pledges are not enough

WIRED ·

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At a UK parliamentary hearing, Anthropic's Liam Booth-Smith said "The rules should be binding," and OpenAI's Tom Duff Gordon backed mandatory elements starting with incident reporting. Google DeepMind and Meta declined to support a new statutory framework. Civil servants confirmed the UK AI Security Institute's pre-release access is voluntary.

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