Altman met with administration officials at the White House and with lawmakers of both parties, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, according to the report.
The executive order signed Tuesday (June 2) seeks access to new AI models before their release, PYMNTS reported Tuesday.
It asks companies to voluntarily take part in benchmarking to examine an AI model’s “advanced cyber capabilities” and gauge whether it should be classified as a “covered frontier model.” It also seeks access to those models for up to 30 days before release, allowing the government to choose “trusted partners that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.”
The order lacks some specific details but is supported by executives from leading AI companies, according to the CNBC report.
Altman wrote in a Tuesday post on social platform X: “[The U.S. should] lead on AI by continuing to develop the very best models, making sure they’re safe, and getting cyber tools into the hands of trusted defenders. [The] new EO gets the balance right.”
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The OpenAI CEO has been a frequent visitor to Capitol Hill since the company’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022, according to the CNBC report. His visits include meetings with lawmakers in March after OpenAI signed a deal with the Pentagon, and attendance at Trump’s inauguration last year, per the report.
Bloomberg also reported Wednesday that Altman is meeting White House officials and lawmakers. The report said Altman aims to discuss public-private collaboration on AI and to press for more transparent disclosures from government model evaluations and a greater role for OpenAI in the Department of Commerce’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).
According to the Bloomberg report, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane told reporters Wednesday that Altman would discuss how AI companies should work with the government. Lehane said these kinds of collaborations “will evolve over time and will probably evolve as capabilities continue to evolve.”
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