That is my impression too.
As in the comment below, the fear of “be deemed ineffective” is real.
And, as I believe it was again reinforced in the last townhall and it was probably written elsewhere, the OSI board is also concerned that a too strict definition might lend itself to an “empty set” of OSAID-compliant Ai systems.
I would argue that:
- firstly, we do not abdicate of our principles, and,
- secondly, we invite all those stakeholders to see how they could approach their systems onto to our definitions and carve out a compromise which does not taint our ideas.