OpenAI backs bills in US Congress on AI and biological weapon threats
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FILE PHOTO: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to a reporter in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, July 29, 2026. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo
Sept 15 (Reuters) - OpenAI is endorsing a series of bipartisan bills before the U.S. Congress that the company says will help to prevent artificial intelligence models from accelerating the threat of biological weapons and synthetic viruses, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.
• The ChatGPT-maker is endorsing the Web of Biological Data Act, the AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act and the Scale Biology Act, the spokesperson said. Politico earlier reported the endorsements.
• OpenAI is also backing a key provision of the FRONTIER Act that requires leading AI companies to embed independent evaluators to assess the safety of their models, the spokesperson said.
• Concerns about advanced AI have escalated, with heads of top U.S. AI labs including OpenAI also calling for a slowdown in the pace of advanced AI development.
• Last week, OpenAI said it was pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements in the United States.
(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan and Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese and Edmund Klamann)
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