I'm searching for examples of self-governance efforts to reduce technology risk. Do people have cases to suggest? The more similar to AI development the better.

Examples from academia:

• Leo Szilard and other physicists coordinating to prevent Germany from obtaining atomic bomb data, 1939-1940
• Various efforts in biotechnology:
  • Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA, 1975
  • Mutations Database Initiative, 1999-2001
  • Synthetic biology conferences SB1.0 and SB2.0, 2006
  • Biology journals discussing publication restrictions, 2001-2011

Examples from the commercial sector:

• DNA synthesis companies screening orders and buyers, 2004-2012
• Efforts by the nanotechnology companies in the US, UK and Europe, 2004-2007