OpenAI Pushes Civilian Oversight Against White House Plan

OpenAI's new policy paper calls for civilian agencies to oversee frontier AI safety, diverging from the Trump administration's executive order, which places the NSA in charge of evaluating AI risks. OpenAI prefers the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation handle the role. Despite the disagreement, CEO Sam Altman publicly backed the executive order and met with White House officials and key lawmakers this week. OpenAI executive Chris Lehane said the company will push to transfer oversight to CAISI and raised concerns about the EO's unclear benchmarking thresholds for frontier AI models.