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OpenAI wants the government to review its AI models — in exchange for a break from state AI regulations.
On Thursday, the company released a 15-page policy advisory in response to the Trump administration’s request for input, which will inform the administration’s forthcoming AI Action Plan. OpenAI offered to voluntarily let the federal government review its models in exchange for being exempted from state-specific regulations. The company positioned its proposal as a way to counter China’s AI advances because of how it would allow American companies to speed ahead in AI.
Interestingly, Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s vice president of global affairs, told Bloomberg that he thinks the US AI Safety Institute — created under Biden’s executive order — could be the liaison between the government and private sector. This proposal, if formalized, would change the current course of the Institute, which has been a rumored target for layoffs and funding cuts under Trump in recent weeks. The Biden-appointed head of the Institute, Elizabeth Kelly, stepped down shortly after Trump took office.
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“In exchange, developers using this data could work with governments to unlock new insights that help develop better public policies. For example, government agencies can build on the work of the US National Archives and Records Administration in using Optical Character Recognition for text searchability and AI-driven metadata tagging,” the proposal continued.
On the same day OpenAI made its request, Google published a similar set of requests for lessening copyright law.
Both policy proposals follow recent expanded partnerships between AI companies and the US government, including allowing the National Labs to test frontier models and Project Stargate.
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