The rules are being written right now. Are you in the room?

Yesterday's carousel walked through who writes safety standards and how the process works. Today is the simpler question: are you in the room?

IEC Technical Committee 65 maintains IEC 61508 — the standard that defines how every safety-related electronic system is designed, tested, and certified. ISO Technical Committee 299 develops the robot-specific safety standards. IEEE's P7000 series covers autonomous systems ethics and safety verification.

These committees are drafting the rules right now. Not abstract rules — the specific technical requirements that will determine whether your robot can be sold in Europe, whether your safety architecture meets certification requirements, whether your AI-based safety function is assessable by a notified body.

The committees are open. In IEEE, any individual can participate. In IEC and ISO, you join through your national standards body. Israel's is SII. The US uses ANSI. Germany has DIN. The UK has BSI.

Almost no Physical AI founders — the people building the most innovative systems — show up to write the standards that will govern their products. The committees are dominated by established industrial players, certification bodies, and academic researchers. The startup perspective is almost entirely absent.

This isn't a complaint. It's an observation — and an opportunity. If you're building in this space and you're not contributing to any working group, you're not shaping the rules. You're subject to them.

The rooms are open. The seats are not all taken.