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OpenAI and the White House have competing visions for regulating artificial intelligence

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In a recently released policy paper titled “Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A Blueprint for a Federal Structure“OpenAI put forward its vision of AI regulation, built around five core priorities: promoting transparency, protecting innovation, addressing risks to national security and public safety, advancing democratic governance, and creating “adaptive institutions” capable of keeping up with these rapid technological developments.

But while these are all laudable goals, there is little agreement on how to pursue them in practice. and according to Reporting by PoliticoThe timing of this paper is auspicious, coming on the heels of the White House issuing two executive orders on “Promoting advanced artificial intelligence innovation and security“This will bring AI regulation completely under the purview of the government.

As Politico AI reporter Brendan Bordelon explains, the OpenAI paper is an effort to “move” the federal government toward a different approach, in which civilian institutions are responsible for AI oversight. Outlining a process they call “reverse federalism”, OpenAI proposes that states “should first be allowed to develop and refine common legal frameworks” before Congress adopts them at the national level.

In his vision, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) will act as the main point of contact between artificial intelligence companies and the government. An example was set earlier this year When Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI signed a deal with the Commerce Department to allow the federal government to evaluate their AI models for potential national security risks.

As AI becomes ubiquitous across the country, regulators are struggling to catch up. between the possibility of massive job losses, also in manufacturingAnd the turmoil caused by AI deepfakes and “crisis of knowing“They precipitate, people everywhere are looking for clarity and structure, and neither AI creators nor politicians are able to agree on what it should look like.

This push-pull between AI creators and governments has been going on for some time, and it’s unlikely to be resolved any time soon, as the latest Sam Altman visits Capitol Hill Early this week, but still everyone needs to pay close attention, because the balance that is struck here will have big consequences for everything in the future.

Disclosure: Mashable’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in the training and operation of its AI systems.

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