Can AI companies be trusted to regulate themselves?

Sam Altman says OpenAI welcomes consistent federal safety requirements for frontier AI, but labs need not wait for legislation or an antitrust exemption to build public confidence.

He says OpenAI prepares explicit safety cases before frontier reinforcement-learning runs expected to significantly increase capability, alongside its safety work before model releases. He advocates shared standards for misalignment, monitoring and safety, and expresses interest in independent auditors.

A critic challenges the case for trusting AI companies to self-regulate, alleging they have funded Donald Trump and submitted to his demands.