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Cohere CEO says Silicon Valley shouldn't be left to self-regulate AI safety
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told Canada's national investment summit in Toronto that a "small group of companies in Silicon Valley" should not be left in charge of AI safety, criticising Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to loosen antitrust rules so labs can coordinate. He said AI's risks are real but that solutions should come from the public and government, coordinated globally.
Aidan Gomez, CEO of the Canadian AI company Cohere, said a "small group of companies in Silicon Valley" should not be left in charge of ensuring AI is safe, speaking at Canada's national investment summit in Toronto on Tuesday.
According to a Canadian Press report, Gomez singled out a recent call by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for the U.S. government to loosen antitrust restrictions so that AI companies can collaborate on safety, saying it should raise red flags.
His argument is about who gets to define acceptable risk. Gomez said the dangers of AI are real, but that the solutions should come from the public and the government, in consultation with industry — not from the labs that build the systems.
He also praised U.S. President Donald Trump's opposition to calls for self-regulation, an unusual position for an industry CEO given that Trump has simultaneously dismissed AI safety concerns as a hoax and resisted tighter rules.
Gomez argued that the risks posed by AI must be confronted in a globally coordinated way — a framing that puts him closer to the international-governance camp than to the voluntary-commitments approach favoured by several U.S. labs.
The remarks land in a week of unusually public safety debate. Industry leaders have been warning about the technology since an Anthropic researcher who quit last week said people in the industry fear AI could "kill us all," and OpenAI has confirmed weeks of safety discussions with Anthropic and Google DeepMind.
The report was written by Anja Karadeglia in Ottawa and Craig Lord in Toronto and first published on September 15, 2026.
Why it matters
Impact: A North American AI chief executive publicly rejecting lab-set safety rules adds industry weight to the government-led, globally coordinated regulatory camp. It also means Amodei's push for an antitrust waiver now faces opposition from inside the industry.
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