Counsel for Anthropic, OpenAI flag privacy tradeoffs in AI safety | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

By Emma Whitford ( March 30, 2026, 20:04 GMT | Insight) -- The tension between product safety and user privacy is one of the "hardest questions that we have to grapple with on a daily basis," Anthropic product counsel Mengyi Xu said Monday, while OpenAI Senior Counsel Daniel Kehl said the issues are currently "converging" in technology policy conversations focused on youth.The tension between product safety and user privacy is one of the "hardest questions that we have to grapple with on a daily basis," Anthropic product counsel Mengyi Xu said Monday....

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