OpenAI said on Wednesday it was pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements in the United States on concern the technology could accelerate its own development, after some of its own AI agents went rogue.
Several incidents in which AI models from developers including OpenAI accessed external systems during testing have highlighted the difficulty of containing unexpected behavior in advanced agents, and prompted calls for tighter safety regulations.
"The prospect of AI-accelerated AI development demands more than voluntary commitments. The United States needs mandatory, capability-based national regulation that can evolve as the technology does," OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said in a blog post.
The call marks a major push by OpenAI for binding national AI safety rules with U.S. Congress yet to enact a federal framework on AI law even as several U.S. states pass their own legislation.
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