OpenAI supports the bipartisan House FRONTIER Act, which would require leading artificial intelligence companies to let independent external evaluators assess model safety. OpenAI global affairs chief Chris Lehane backed the bill’s independent validation organization framework after meeting with one of its sponsors on Capitol Hill. Introduced by House Republican Jay Obernolte and Democrat Lori Trahan, the legislation seeks to establish the first federal artificial intelligence safety framework. The broader monitoring proposal faces opposition from a key lawmaker who says assessors may lack authority to force meaningful changes, while venture capitalists, academics and President Donald Trump’s former AI czar have questioned financial and personnel ties between some monitoring groups and major AI labs. Support for third-party assessments has grown amid warnings that advanced AI could contribute to devastating cyberattacks, pandemics or other threats to humanity, positioning the approach between Trump’s opposition to AI guardrails and efforts by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar to ban the most powerful systems.