# OpenAI — Building standards for the next phase of AI

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-21T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: 8 outlets
- Announcement: no
- Group: covered
- Source: https://openai.com/index/building-standards-next-phase-ai
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12735-building-standards-for-the-next-phase-of-ai
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI outlines its approach to safely advancing AI through three main goals: building an automated AI researcher while maintaining human oversight, delivering scientific and economic benefits, and empowering individuals with personal AGI. The company emphasizes that international standards for safety and security in frontier AI development are essential to manage risks from recursive self-improvement, prevent fragmentation across nations, enable collective action, and address uneven capacity in AI expertise globally.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/building-standards-next-phase-ai:

> Navigating this transition safely requires alignment research to keep pace with these capabilities so that the systems we and others build remain aligned with human values and under human control. This becomes increasingly important as AI systems grow more capable and autonomous, including as they take on more of AI research and development itself. Making continued AI progress safe and beneficial will require both advances in alignment research and shared standards to guide development across labs and countries.

## Around this story

Outlets this record can name and link:

- Reuters: https://reuters.com/legal/government/openai-calls-us-take-lead-global-efforts-develop-technical-standards-2026-09-21
- Bloomberg: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-21/openai-pushes-us-to-lead-effort-to-set-global-standards-for-ai
- Gizmodo — OpenAI Calls for US to Lead Global AI Standards. Will China Be Okay With That?: https://gizmodo.com/openai-calls-for-us-to-lead-global-ai-standards-will-china-be-okay-with-that-2000815022
- Bloomberg Law — OpenAI Pushes US to Lead Effort to Set Global Standards for AI: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/openai-pushes-us-to-lead-effort-to-set-global-standards-for-ai
- Unite — OpenAI Proposes US-Led Global Technical Standards for Frontier AI: https://unite.ai/openai-proposes-us-led-global-technical-standards-for-frontier-ai
- Implicator — OpenAI Asks U.S. to Lead Global Standards for Self-Improving: https://implicator.ai/openai-asks-u-s-to-lead-global-standards-for-self-improving-ai-before-un-talks
- Pulse 2.0 — OpenAI Calls For Global Frontier AI Standards As Automated AI Research Advances: https://pulse2.com/openai-calls-for-global-frontier-ai-standards-as-automated-ai-research-advances
- Techstrong.ai — OpenAI Proposes Global Safety Standards as U.S. and China Seek Alignment on AI Risks: https://techstrong.ai/ai-governance/openai-proposes-global-safety-standards-as-u-s-and-china-seek-alignment-on-ai-risks

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