OpenAI backs bills in US Congress on AI and biological weapon threats

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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