{
  "id": 7624382,
  "title": "OpenAI, Anthropic, Google to create an AI standards body",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/openai-anthropic-google-to-create-an-ai-standards-body",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-15T19:50:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RTE News",
    "slug": "rte-news",
    "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0915/1591694-openai-anthropic-google-to-create-an-ai-standards-body/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Major AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, are collaborating to establish an AI standards body, as concerns grow over the potential dangers of artificial intelligence technology. This idea originated from a proposal by Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who suggested a self-regulatory body akin to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Hassabis has advocated for the United States to create an organization to test powerful AI systems prior to their public release. However, there is no unanimous agreement on how to proceed.\n\nThe initiative faces opposition, with the CEO of Canadian AI company Cohere accusing the leading American AI labs of forming a \"cartel\" under the guise of safety. Cohere's co-founder and CEO, Aiden Gomez, emphasized that the disagreement lies in who forms the regulations, who participates, and whose interests are protected by the rules.\n\nWorries about AI safety have intensified recently, following warnings from two former AI developers who resigned due to concerns about the industry's risks. Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at Anthropic and OpenAI, stated that AI companies are \"gambling with our lives.\" Another former Google DeepMind researcher, Bilal Chughtai, expressed his belief that AI could result in human extinction and expressed a sense of urgency to prevent such an outcome.\n\nAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently called for a reduction in the speed of AI development, a view shared by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Hassabis. However, US President Donald Trump has dismissed AI risks as \"hoaxes,\" while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also disputed the warnings, stating that the AI safety concern is not supported by scientific evidence.",
  "summary": "The world's biggest AI companies are working on creating a standards body, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said, as fears rise about the dangers of AI and pressure is on to create a safer version of the technology.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}