OpenAI

In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable. The companies and public services our communities depend on—from hospitals to water treatment plants to the infrastructure that powers the internet—are at risk. Today’s AI advances are already giving defenders new ways to fix weaknesses that have accumulated for years. If we act decisively, we can use the defenders’ window to make our digital world much more secure. We propose the following principles for a collective response:

The question I hear from CFOs everywhere is simple: how do we get more value from our AI spend? For years, the market measured the success of software through adoption: seats purchased, users active, licenses renewed. Understanding the value of AI demands a more powerful measure: work accomplished. The basic economic question facing CFOs and other business leaders is whether the value of the work AI completes grows faster than the cost of producing it. Answering that question requires looking more deeply than a metric such as cost per token.

While we strongly believe that AI’s benefits will far outweigh its challenges, we are clear-eyed about the risks—of jobs and entire industries being disrupted; bad actors misusing the technology; misaligned systems evading human control; governments or institutions deploying AI in ways that undermine democratic values; and power and wealth becoming more concentrated instead of more widely shared. Indeed, we highlight these risks here to raise awareness of the need for policy solutions to address them.

OpenAI's policy proposals for extending America’s global leadership in artificial intelligence innovation, ensuring equitable access to AI, and driving economic growth across communities nationwide. As AI becomes more advanced, we believe America needs to act now to maximize the technology’s possibilities while minimizing its harms.