Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says AI safety efforts should not be handled through self-regulation by Silicon Valley. Speaking at a national investment summit in Toronto on Tuesday, Gomez argued that proposals to change how major AI companies coordinate could raise concerns.
The comments come after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the U.S. government to loosen antitrust restrictions to enable companies to collaborate more directly on AI safety. Gomez said that idea should “raise a little red flag,” contrasting with the premise that fewer legal limits could speed up safety work.
Across the reporting, the focus is on how AI safety research should be structured and governed, and what role governments should play. While Amodei’s position emphasizes enabling collaboration by adjusting competition rules, Gomez’s view underscores the need for caution about entrusting oversight or coordination primarily to industry actors without additional safeguards.
