OpenAI's Chris Lehane says national AI standards have momentum, internal testing likely excluded
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-18
- On a call, OpenAI's head of global affairs Chris Lehane said there's "momentum" behind national standards for AI, seemingly meaning some form of licensing.
- Asked whether national standards would cover internal testing—where most known incidents occurred—Lehane called it "a potential" option but stressed "perfect should not be the enemy of the good" and "a real holistic approach," which the reporter reads as a no, or not yet.
- He notes the solution on the table wouldn't have prevented the Hugging Face incident, most incidents in OpenAI's misalignment report, or the AISI incident involving Claude.
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