Inside AI Policy

October 14, 2025

OpenAI’s Altman: AI regulation should focus on ‘extremely capable’ frontier models

By Charlie Mitchell / October 9, 2025

OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman continues to argue for some form of regulation on the most advanced artificial intelligence frontier models, while warning that more extensive “European-style” rules for AI will only serve to advantage competitors in China.

“I think most regulation probably has a lot of downside. The thing I would most like is as the models get truly, extremely superhuman capable, I think those models -- and only those models -- are probably worth some sort of...


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