Sam Altman calls for US-led international forum to set global AI standards
Sam Altman is calling for a US-led international forum to set global safety standards for artificial intelligence, arguing that no single country should be left to dominate the technology.
In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Financial Times, OpenAI Group PBC’s chief executive (pictured) proposed “a US-led international forum that establishes accepted standards, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks and makes the technology available to nations and companies that participate and follow the rules.”
The body would bring together government representatives, independent technical experts and others, Altman wrote. He said it could “serve as a governance mechanism over the labs and guard against the commercial pressures that can lead to unsafe racing.”
Altman pointed to global aviation safety rules, international financial standards and the International Atomic Energy Agency as models. The IAEA was set up in 1957 to police civilian nuclear energy and did so even as the U.S. and Soviet Union built up their arsenals. Altman’s argument is that rival powers have found ways to govern dangerous technologies together.
