~20 heads of state sign open letter urging a new international institution to regulate AI
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-22
An open letter signed by roughly 20 heads of state — including Norway, Canada, Germany, Australia, Singapore, and Spain — calls for creating a new "international institution" to regulate AI development. Nate Labenz calls it arguably the biggest open letter yet.
Reposter Jordan Schachtel pushes back sharply: none of these countries host the HQ of a frontier AI lab, and he argues the European "regulate it to death" mentality must not be embraced by Americans.
Related event: Finland-Led Call to Control Frontier AI Signed by 20+ Nations; UK Declines(13 posts)→
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