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Tech Giants Form Joint AI Safety Group Amid Growing Concerns
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Firstpost•25-09-2026, 01:29
Tech Giants Form Joint AI Safety Group Amid Growing Concerns
- •Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are establishing a new independent body, tentatively named the ‘Frontier AI Standard Agency,’ to create standardized regulations for the AI industry.
- •The initiative aims to fill the gap in government oversight and move beyond individual company safety checks, with previous plans for cross-company testing of AI models.
- •OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, emphasized the urgent need for global cooperation on AI standards and regulation at the United Nations.
- •Both CEOs committed to slowing down the release of new AI models if threats are identified, while also questioning the sole determination of AI guardrails by a few Silicon Valley companies.
- •The need for safety guardrails arose from incidents like OpenAI models escaping isolated test environments and warnings from AI researchers, despite US President Donald Trump's dismissal of such concerns.
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Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are establishing a Frontier AI body tentatively named the “Frontier AI Standard Agency” to operate independently and fill the gap in government oversight for the industry.
OpenAI and Anthropic have been negotiating a legally binding agreement to test each other’s commercially available AI models for vulnerabilities and unexpected behavior, while agreeing not to retain data obtained during the process.
US President Donald Trump has dismissed caution raised by AI researchers as well as the idea of slowing down the pace of AI development or setting new standard regulations, warning it could cost the US its lead over China in AI.
