OpenAI suggests safe harbor from state laws for companies working with Commerce Dept.

Developers of frontier artificial intelligence models should be shielded from state laws aimed at ensuring security if they agree to share information regarding their process with the federal government, OpenAI said in comments to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.

“We propose creating a tightly-scoped framework for voluntary partnership between the federal government and the private sector to protect and strengthen American national security,” the company wrote in a March 13 submission to OSTP.

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