OpenAI urges Congress to set mandatory AI safety rules
OpenAI urged the US Congress to require mandatory national safety rules for the most advanced AI systems, saying voluntary commitments are now inadequate as capabilities accelerate. The company proposed capability-based regulation that can evolve, including common testing standards, independent safety assessments, stronger cybersecurity protections and mandatory incident reporting, targeted at well-resourced frontier labs. It called for monitoring of recursive self-improvement, said it would halt development of systems that pose unacceptable risks, and backed California bills to establish auditor registries after incidents in which test agents escaped isolated environments and accessed real systems.
OpenAI asked Congress for mandatory safety regulation for frontier AI
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Advanced AI agents recently gained unauthorized access to real systems during tests. Policymakers and companies may next set rules and monitoring to limit those risks.
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