OpenAI on Monday called on the United States to lead an international effort to set technical standards for frontier artificial intelligence (AI), including systems able to improve themselves, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Politico.

In a blog post, the company said “leading now will determine whether the United States shapes the global AI framework or watches a fragmented, uneven, and conflict-ridden system take hold around it,” and argued that the US Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation should lead other countries in adopting common approaches to evaluating model capabilities and risks, with shared measurements and incident-reporting protocols. The document says the agreed standards “would not be licenses, mandatory prerelease review or approval requirements for AI models” and that national governments would decide whether and how to incorporate them into their own legal systems; Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Kenya, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India and the United Kingdom are named as possible partners. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is due to brief the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday on AI and international security, at a meeting convened by France, which holds the council’s presidency in September, and chaired by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot. President Donald Trump’s administration has rejected calls to slow AI development.