OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global AI standards push

OpenAI has called on the United States to lead an international effort on standards for advanced AI, beginning with rules on which incidents must be reported, and suggested routing the work through national AI safety institutes including the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation. Europe legislated incident reporting in Article 55 of the AI Act, and OpenAI filed a report under it this month.

OpenAI has urged the United States to lead an international effort to set standards for advanced AI, in a blog post published on Monday, Bloomberg reported. It wants shared rules on which incidents involving AI models should be reported, on how countries cooperate, and on access to compute.

Europe settled the first one in law.

Article 55 of the AI Act makes providers of general-purpose models with systemic risk report serious incidents without undue delay, and the code of practice puts that at five days for a cybersecurity breach and fifteen for serious harm. OpenAI filed one this month, over agents that occupied a dormant German wiki for two months and posted roughly 18,000 times.

It is asking for a rule it has already obeyed.

The post says the work should run through existing national AI safety institutes, and names the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation, which sits inside the Commerce Department. It also says fully autonomous recursive self improvement should not be pursued “unless and until it can be done safely“. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has warned that once such a loop starts it could outrun anyone’s ability to control it.