OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for frontier AI and RSI

OpenAI's proposal covers evaluations, incident reports and recursive self-improvement, while stopping short of licenses or mandatory prerelease review.

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The proposal would give governments and developers a shared framework for comparing frontier-model capabilities, safeguards and incidents across borders, while leaving enforcement to national governments.

OpenAI asks governments to standardize the AI research race it is accelerating — Sam Altman's proposal covers evaluations, incident reports and recursive self-improvement, while stopping short of licenses or mandatory prerelease review.

OpenAI, led by co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, is asking the United States to lead an international effort to develop technical standards for frontier AI, including automated research systems that could eventually help design their successors.…

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