Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are creating their own industry SI safety standards body modeled on FINRA
Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Publication time restored from the build log. . Updated: .
Without waiting for a law, market leaders are writing rules for themselves; the question is whether those rules will become protection from risks or a fence against competitors.
The working name is Standards Authority for Frontier SI (SAFA); launch is possible by the end of 2026 or in early 2027. The body is meant to set common safety tests, third-party review of models before release and incident reporting rules, working together with federal agencies. They have offered the leadership to Sriram Krishnan, a former White House SI adviser who left saying "there will be no FDA for SI"; they also approached former OSTP director Arati Prabhakar. Demis Hassabis began the talks back in July. Cohere chief Aidan Gomez called the effort "a cartel by another name", fearing it would entrench the leaders and hurt smaller companies and open source.
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