After telling American AI companies to ‘pause’, OpenAI proposes standards to the world

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has published a new set of proposals for AI safety standards urging international cooperation to regulate frontier artificial intelligence. The company has also stressed the need for alignment research in order to keep pace with advanced capabilities, particularly around recursive self improvement (RSI) which us a computing technique which enables the AI models to upgrade themselves without any human involvement. In its blog post, OpenAI warned: “Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely.” The company cautioned that without proper safeguards, RSI could lead to humans losing practical control over AI development.