OpenAI has proposed mandatory federal evaluations of the most capable AI models before public release while arguing that regulators should stop short of deciding whether those systems can be deployed, staking out a middle ground in the debate over how frontier AI should be governed.
The company’s proposal came a day after the White House issued an executive order on advanced AI innovation and security, amid ongoing discussions in Washington of whether oversight of frontier AI systems should rely on voluntary commitments, mandatory evaluations, licensing requirements, or some combination of the three.
At the center of OpenAI’s proposal is a distinction between government evaluation and govern...