Snowflake CEO: Regulate Every AI Agent, Not Just the Labs
By Meta, TechPulse USA Sridhar Ramaswamy, chief executive of Snowflake. File photo, taken 2021 during his time at Greylock and Neeva, before he joined Snowflake. Photo: Ramaswamy11703 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The man who once ran Google's advertising empire now says the machines need rules — and not the ones sitting in a lab somewhere. In an interview at Snowflake's Menlo Park headquarters, chief executive Sridhar Ramaswamy told the Economic Times that artificial intelligence regulation must reach "every AI agent that businesses put to work" and "should not stop at the labs that build frontier models." It is, quietly, the most pointed critique yet of the deal Washington struck last month. On September 29, President Trump hosted six companies — Nvidia, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Alphabet's Google — at the White House and got them to sign a voluntary safety accord he called "morally binding." The one-pager commits front...