The AI policy window is open. We need to act.

We’ve reached a new chapter in AI capabilities, and that demands a new chapter for AI policy. No company, industry, or government can meet this challenge alone. We need to meet this moment with a bias toward meaningful action over policy perfection.

Pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements. We want to work with Congress on mandatory, capability-based national AI safety regulation.

Keeping up momentum in the states. Until Congress acts, we will continue supporting state legislation that strengthens the broader AI safety ecosystem. Today, we are announcing our support for four California bills: SB 813 on overall infrastructure for independent safety assessments, AB 1405 on AI-auditor standards, SB 1119 on protections for young people, and AB 1864 on safeguards against AI-enabled biological threats.

Nor should frontier safety policy become open-weights policy by another name. Open models can be part of the solution, particularly in cybersecurity and where sovereignty, security, or data-residency needs favor local deployment. Most compete not at the frontier, but on cost, control, and latency. As we affirmed in signing the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter ⁠ (opens in a new window) , America needs both open and closed models. A federal framework should address frontier capabilities and risks without weakening competition, entrenching incumbents, or driving innovation overseas.

Advancing industry-led standards. We will work with other frontier labs to advance frontier AI standards, building a voluntary effort now, with or without government support.

Several serious frontier safety proposals are now taking shape in Congress. We will continue to engage constructively and expect to support legislation that materially raises the safety bar. With stakes this high, we cannot let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Congress should act before it adjourns.

SB 1119 ⁠ (opens in a new window) would require age assurance, risk assessments, independent audits, parental controls, and safeguards against harmful content for children and teens using companion chatbots. We recently signaled our support ⁠ of this bill, which builds on youth-safety measures OpenAI has advanced through our products, ⁠ global policy principles ⁠ , and support for the ⁠ (opens in a new window) Parents & Kids Safe AI Act ⁠ (opens in a new window) , as well as protections built into ChatGPT for Teens—including stronger defaults in sensitive areas, Quiet Hours, Study Hours, and break reminders.

Building global standards. We will advocate for compatible international approaches to measuring capabilities, managing risk, preserving human control, and determining when and how development should slow or stop, even if that means slowing the advancement of model capabilities.

Our Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki recently wrote ⁠ that the rapid rise of machine intelligence, including the potential of recursive self-improvement, calls for “extreme caution.” OpenAI will continue pursuing technical solutions to alignment and monitoring, building defensive systems, and slowing development when necessary. But technical work inside individual labs will not be enough. We also need shared standards, including regarding when development should slow or stop.

The stakes are enormous. Advanced AI could accelerate the development of new medicines ⁠ , strengthen critical infrastructure ⁠ , expand economic opportunity ⁠ , and help solve scientific problems ⁠ that have resisted generations of human effort. But the capabilities that make models more useful also come with risks, and they will not remain confined to a few frontier laboratories. Models developed around the world, including open models, will increasingly approach today’s frontier and become broadly available.