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OpenAI's Sam Altman says an international agency should monitor the 'most powerful' AI to ensure 'reasonable safety'

Altman said on the All-In podcast this week that he wants an international agency to ensure "reasonable safety testing."

President Joe Biden also signed an executive order last year calling for greater transparency from the world's biggest AI models. He thinks that lawmakers, even if they're "true world experts," probably can't write policies that will appropriately regulate events 12 to 24 months from now. "When like significant loss of human life is a serious possibility, like airplanes, or any number of other examples where I think we're happy to have some sort of testing framework," he said.

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