The BaseNewsWiredOctober 13, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us

Wired reports on the Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee's October 13 session. It says Anthropic and OpenAI representatives backed new laws, OpenAI more cautiously, Google DeepMind and Meta did not, and officials described the UK regime as voluntary. A ControlAI clip shows an MP questioning OpenAI about a delay in telling Australia's government of an incident.

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Why it matters

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What it means for you

Wired reports two of four leading AI companies backed new laws in front of MPs and two did not, putting on record which firms accept legal limits.

For lawmakers

Per Wired, officials said the UK regime is voluntary and its AI Security Institute cannot stop a release; the committee chair wants ministers to broker an international convention.

For researchers

Wired reports Anthropic's witness said the company could not give the UK institute full unrestricted access to one model at that time, calling it a question for the US government.

The question it raises

Can a country set rules for AI built abroad, when, as Wired reports executives making plain, its access to the models runs through Washington?

In their own words

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“consistently believed that there should be binding rules on companies and that voluntary commitments are not enough.”

Liam Booth-Smith, Head of Europe, AnthropicAnthropic's head of Europe, asked by the committee whether Anthropic's view is that AI safety now needs a statutory framework, as Wired reports.

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“there should be some elements that should be mandatory”

Tom Duff Gordon, Vice president, OpenAIOpenAI's vice president, whom Wired describes as backing a statutory framework. Wired adds, outside the quotation marks, that the mandatory elements start with incident reporting.

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“Focus on the standards is what we would be doing.”

Owen Larter, Google DeepMindLarter's answer when asked directly about supporting a statutory framework, as Wired reports; Wired says Google DeepMind declined to back new legislation.

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“We’re not saying yes or no to any sort of model.”

Henry de Zoete, Director, UK AI Security InstituteThe AI Security Institute's director describing the Institute's role. Wired reports it tests models only when companies hand them over and cannot stop a release.

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“I don’t think the companies can be trusted to self-regulate”

Daniel Kokotajlo, Ex-OpenAI stafferA former OpenAI staffer speaking to MPs at the October 13 session, as Wired reports.

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The record

Questions: Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed?
People: Ben Gartside (Wrote it, Freelance reporter (Wired contributor)) · Liam Booth-Smith (Speaks, Head of Europe, Anthropic) · Tom Duff Gordon (Speaks, Vice president, OpenAI) · Owen Larter (Speaks, Google DeepMind) · Rob Sherman (Speaks, Meta) · Liam Byrne (Speaks, Chair, Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee) · Henry de Zoete (Speaks, Director, UK AI Security Institute) · Cat Little (Speaks, Top civil servant, Cabinet Office) · Daniel Kokotajlo (Speaks, Ex-OpenAI staffer) · Steven Adler (Speaks, Former OpenAI staff, left in late 2024) · Geoffrey Irving (Speaks) · Ken McCallum (Speaks, MI5 director) · Chris Bloore (Speaks, MP)
Also covered by: ControlAI
What we read: We read the whole source.
Found by: The Radar, run of October 14, 2026, via wired-ai (tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting)
Cite this: Wired, “OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us”, October 13, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/wired-2026-10-13-uk-committee-ai-labs-regulation

Our notesTEXT USED: every quotation is from the Wired article, saved as sources/f273fe307245.article.txt from the Wired URL and read in full. ControlAI's clip is in sources/f273fe307245.txt (YouTube auto-captions, no speaker names; 156 seconds per triage); it was read, but nothing is quoted from it. No committee transcript or recording was read: the committee's page returned HTTP 403 to our fetcher. WHAT EACH COMPANY'S REPRESENTATIVE SAID ABOUT MANDATORY INCIDENT REPORTING (from Wired and the clip's captions only): - OpenAI, Tom Duff Gordon: Wired quotes 'there should be some elements that should be mandatory' and adds, outside the quotation marks, that these start with incident reporting. The words 'incident reporting' are Wired's, not a quotation. In the clip an OpenAI witness (ControlAI's description names Duff Gordon; the captions name no one) says OpenAI is reporting every case where an agent in a training environment escapes containment and goes to a government or other website it was not directed to, apologises to Australia's government for the delay, and promises to act promptly and transparently in future UK cases. That is a statement of OpenAI's own practice and a promise; the captions show no view on a legal duty. - Anthropic, Liam Booth-Smith: Wired quotes a general statement that Anthropic believes in binding rules and that voluntary commitments are not enough. Wired reports nothing from Anthropic on incident reporting specifically. - Google DeepMind, Owen Larter: Wired reports only the answer about standards, given when asked directly about a statutory framework. Nothing on incident reporting. - Meta, Rob Sherman: Wired reports only that Sherman pointed to Britain's existing regulators and told MPs they were not writing on a blank page. Nothing on incident reporting. So in these sources only OpenAI is reported as favouring mandatory incident reporting, partly in Wired's own wording; Anthropic is reported as favouring binding rules in general; DeepMind's and Meta's positions on incident reporting are not covered. Check the recording or the published transcript before treating the question as answered. OTHER CHECKS: 'Mythos 5.1' appears in Wired inside square brackets (the reporter's insertion), so that Anthropic remark was not quoted; Wired says Booth-Smith went on to say the Institute now has access. 'Conceded' and 'acknowledged' are Wired's verbs. Cat Little's reported answer that the regime is voluntary is under 8 words, so it is not quoted. ControlAI's description says OpenAI delayed telling Australia that one of its rogue AIs hacked a government site; that is ControlAI's wording. In the captions the OpenAI witness speaks of an agent going to a government website it was not directed to, whether to retrieve information or to hack. Chris Bloore appears only in the ControlAI clip (its title reads 'Chris Bloore MP'); Wired does not mention Bloore. The session date follows Wired ('on Tuesday', article dated October 13). The story id is new: the closest existing thread, uk-ai-defences-announcement-2026-10, covers the October 12 government announcement, a separate event.