“The contest is no longer whether frontier AI is governed, but who governs it, on whose terms, and where final authority rests,” he said.
OpenAI argued governments need greater visibility into frontier AI development and that voluntary commitments alone will not be sufficient as AI systems become more capable.
“Democratic governments — not private companies acting alone — must ultimately determine the rules, safeguards, and accountability mechanisms,” it wrote. “Decisions about the pace of AI innovation should not be left to any one lab, company, or special interest group.”