GoKawiilOpenAI Confirms Weeks-Long AI Safety Talks With Anthropic, Google DeepMind
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the company has spent weeks in discussions with Anthropic and Google DeepMind about managing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. The disclosure follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's public essay urging industry-wide cooperation to slow frontier AI development, which drew support from Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis. Lehane said the firms don't need a government waiver to coordinate, despite antitrust concerns raised by some executives.
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Rival AI labs coordinating on safety standards is unusual given fierce competition for talent and market share, and it signals genuine unease among developers about the pace of capability gains. The antitrust question looms large: regulators could view safety coordination as cover for anticompetitive behavior, especially with the Trump administration dismissing safety concerns altogether. How this plays out could shape whether industry self-regulation or government oversight ends up governing frontier AI.
- OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have quietly coordinated on AI safety for weeks
- The talks follow Amodei's public call to slow frontier AI development to avoid catastrophic risk
- Lehane says no government antitrust waiver is needed despite competition law concerns
Source: techcrunch.com — Rebecca Bellan, 2026-09-15
Published there as: “OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks”
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