Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI?
Cohere, Sunday, September 13th, 2026
Cohere argues AI standards should rest on evidence rather than being set by a small group of incumbent labs.
Cohere argues that AI governance standards are being shaped by a narrow set of large labs whose interests do not represent the broader market.
The post calls for evidenced standards grounded in measurable results rather than rules written by incumbents that conveniently raise barriers to entry.
It discusses the risk of regulatory capture in AI safety frameworks and what open, verifiable evaluation would look like instead. Cohere positions itself alongside enterprise customers and sovereign deployments that need alternatives to a concentrated standards regime.