Is the AI safety debate about safety or control? As three of the world’s largest AI labs enter voluntary standards-body talks this September, a sharper question is emerging beneath the safety rhetoric: who gets to decide the rules, and who is left out? Sam Altman’s Sept 12 essay called for pre-deployment scrutiny of frontier models, […]
βWhatsCrack DeskEditorial teamSep 19, 2026 Β· 3 min read
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As three of the world's largest AI labs enter voluntary standards-body talks this September, a sharper question is emerging beneath the safety rhetoric: who gets to decide the rules, and who is left out?