At the start of this week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially with government assistance, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly seemed to agree on aspects of all three things. Anthropic and OpenAI had already been dropping hints that they and other labs were working on some kind of industry framework, and appearing pro-regulation looked like both a good PR move and a way to address fallout from hacking incidents. But any government involvement looks like a non-starter, as the Trump administration has attacked the idea of a safety crisis in AI, calling it a “hoax.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out against limiting companies’ autonomy, and the Wall Street Journal reported that Zuckerberg, Musk, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang scuttled proposals for an industry-funded independent regulator akin to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Still, OpenAI’s global affairs chief Chris Lehane told The Verge that people want to know AI is being developed safely, that it begins with steps companies take on their own, but government has an important role too.