NEWS AI Policy
OpenAI Calls for Global Frontier-AI Standards, While Ruling Out Licenses and Mandatory Pre-Release Review
OpenAI's Global Affairs team published "Building standards for the next phase of AI" on September 21, 2026, urging international technical standards for frontier AI and recursive self-improvement through CAISI and the AI safety institutes network, while stating the standards would not be licenses, mandatory prerelease review, or approval requirements.