OpenAI backs provision for federal AI safety framework from bipartisan FRONTIER Act

OpenAI has endorsed a core provision of the bipartisan FRONTIER Act, which would force the largest AI developers to let independent safety assessors inside their operations. 

This marks the first time that OpenAI has publicly backed a federal mandate regarding AI safety. 

Does OpenAI support the FRONTIER Act?  

Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, told reporters on Tuesday that the company supports the FRONTIER Act’s requirement for what it calls “independent verification organizations,” or IVOs. 

The bill was proposed by Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), and if passed, it would build the first federal framework for AI safety, creating allowance for independent evaluators to go into frontier labs and check that models are being built safely.

Lehane said that during a Capitol Hill meeting on Monday, he “specifically talked about how we think about IVO and made clear that we can support that.”

Earlier on Saturday, chief executive Sam Altman pledged to voluntarily embed third-party evaluators inside the company, hours after Anthropic’s Dario Amodei made a similar promise. Altman wrote on X that he would “welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI.” 

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