Microsoft, Alphabet, OpenAI, and Anthropic—four of the most important A.I. developers in the world—announced Wednesday they would form a trade organization, called the Frontier Model Forum, in an effort to craft new regulations and policies for the emerging technology.
This isn’t the first time A.I. developers have agreed to some form of self-regulation. OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman invited “regulatory interventions” by governments when he testified before Congress in May, and earlier this month, the White House announced a voluntary agreement on A.I. guardrails with the four companies above, plus Meta, Amazon, and the startup Inflection.
