# OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us

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> **Original Source**: [Wired AI](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-and-anthropic-tell-british-lawmakers-regulate-us/)
> **Author**: Ben Gartside (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Tuesday, October 13, 2026
> **Category**: CULTURE
> **Tags**: AI, Wired AI, culture

## Executive Summary
AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain's spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons



## Full Coverage
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

"The rules should be binding," Anthropic's head of Europe Liam Booth-Smith told the committee, when asked if the company's view was that AI safety now needs a statutory framework . The company, he said, has "consistently believed that there should be binding rules on companies and that voluntary commitments are not enough."

OpenAI vice president Tom Duff Gordon was more cautious but still supportive, backing a statutory framework and an international convention. Duff Gordon said "there should be some elements that should be mandatory," starting with incident reporting. "We don't think basing everything on voluntary commitments for frontier risk is a good long-term plan," he said

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