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Representatives for OpenAI<\/span> and Anthropic<\/a> told a British parliamentary hearing that voluntary pledges were no longer enough to ensure safety and that new laws should be introduced, deepening a public schism with Google DeepMind<\/a> and Meta<\/a>, both of which declined to back new legislation.<\/p>\n

The Business, Innovation, Science, and Trade Committee, comprising a cross-party panel of MPs, held an evidence session on Tuesday with appearances from four frontier AI firms, four former staff of the firms turned whistleblowers and senior British civil servants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rules should be binding,\u201d Anthropic\u2019s head of Europe Liam Booth-Smith told the committee, when asked if the company\u2019s view was that AI safety now needs a statutory framework<\/a>. The company, he said, has \u201cconsistently believed that there should be binding rules on companies and that voluntary commitments are not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI<\/a> vice president Tom Duff Gordon was more cautious but still supportive, backing a statutory framework<\/a> and an international convention. Duff Gordon said \u201cthere should be some elements that should be mandatory,\u201d starting with incident reporting. \u201cWe don\u2019t think basing everything on voluntary commitments for frontier risk is a good long-term plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, their rivals would not follow. Asked directly whether he supported a statutory framework, Google DeepMind\u2019s Owen Larter said: \u201cFocus on the standards is what we would be doing.\u201d Meta\u2019s Rob Sherman pointed to Britain\u2019s existing regulators, telling MPs they were \u201cnot writing on a blank page.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hearing exposed an existing divide on the subject of regulation, putting the conflicting approaches of AI leaders on the British parliamentary record. Exposing this divide in a second jurisdiction was the point, according to select committee chair Liam Byrne. The committee set out \u201cto light up the wide differences in opinions between some of the wealthiest firms on Earth,\u201d he told WIRED after the hearing, and to show \u201cthat you couldn\u2019t rely on voluntary self-regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the four executives gave evidence to the committee on AI safety, only a few hundred meters away, Britain\u2019s security service director issued a warning about the dangers of AI.<\/p>\n

MI5 director Ken McCallum used his annual threat update to warn of bioweapon misuse as a significant threat from AI. \u201cNot yet realized, but the misuse case to which I\u2019d attach greatest weight, is AI\u2019s potential to change the stakes on existing or even new bioweapons,\u201d McCallum said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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