Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are building their own AI regulator, with no government in it

WION reports that Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are building a self-regulatory AI standards body of their own. According to the report, the body is being created by the three companies and would have no government inside it. The article describes the project as an AI regulator being constructed by the firms that it would cover, rather than one established through a public or legislative process. WION presents the effort as a standards-setting initiative rather than a single company's internal policy.

The report states that the body is patterned on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which WION describes as the body that regulates Wall Street brokers. According to the article, the idea was floated publicly over the summer by Google DeepMind's chief executive. The report sets out the proposal in outline, describing the template rather than a detailed structure, timetable or membership.

WION frames the development around a question: whether a voluntary body of this kind amounts to genuine safety infrastructure, or a way to occupy regulatory space before a government does. The article presents the absence of government participation as a defining feature of the proposal as described. It also presents the financial industry's self-regulatory structure as the template the companies are following. The piece notes that the concept was made public rather than developed through a formal legislative or regulatory process, and it identifies Google, OpenAI and Anthropic as the three companies involved.