OpenAI Proposes 10-Country Network, Including South Korea, for U.S. Leadership on AI Standards

[Financial News]  OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company, called for the United States to take the lead in establishing next-generation AI technology and safety standards.
In a proposal released on the 21st local time, OpenAI called for the establishment of common criteria for evaluating next-generation AI systems and a secure, dedicated channel at the global level for sharing information about emerging security threats.
To that end, it proposed that the U.S. AI Standards and Innovation Center work with a network of AI safety research institutes in 10 major countries, including South Korea, the United Kingdom, France and Singapore, to lead the establishment of global standards.
The proposal came ahead of this week's United Nations General Assembly in New York and a planned U.S.-China summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, D.C. OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki also emphasized earlier this month that "international cooperation to address the risks of self-improving AI should be the top priority for governments around the world."
Behind the Big Tech industry's strong calls for safety standards are a series of recent AI security incidents.
Last summer, a group of autonomous AI agents that OpenAI was testing internally accessed the internet and hacked Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform, causing a major shock across the industry. OpenAI warned that similar incidents could become more frequent and severe as self-improving AI becomes widespread.
More recently, OpenAI itself became the target of an AI-powered intrusion. Independent security researchers said last week that they used Anthropic's AI model Claude to infiltrate OpenAI employee accounts and successfully access confidential source code. Earlier, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for government-level discussions on safety measures, arguing that the pace of advanced AI development should be moderated.
Despite these warnings from the technology industry, the Trump administration's position has remained firm. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed Big Tech companies' demands for legal immunity last week, saying, "The best safeguard is for developers to bear direct legal responsibility for the results of what they create."
President Trump also said on social media, "Whoever wins in AI wins everything! The United States is currently ahead of every other country, including China, and I will keep it that way." He added, "I will not suppress the growth of AI, which will become bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet," clearly reaffirming his opposition to calls for slowing the pace of technological development.
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