> Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety

Amodei. June 2026 https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

> We're proposing stronger regulation of the technology, proposing giving the government the ability to, again, in a narrow way, block deployment of unsafe technology

Amodei. June 2026 https://abcnews.com/Business/exclusive-anthropic-ceo-calls-s...

> This is not to suggest that we won't need any regulation or safeguards. We obviously do, urgently, like we have for other powerful technologies

Altman. Feb 2026 https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-openai-altman-world-urge...

> He gave several suggestions for how a new agency in the US could regulate the industry - including "a combination of licensing and testing requirements" for AI companies, which he said could be used to regulate the "development and release of AI models above a threshold of capabilities".

Altman. May 2023 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65616866

etc. etc.