OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman met with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and congressional lawmakers this week to discuss safety legislation for a forthcoming artificial intelligence model. The meetings occur ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline for the White House to finalize a voluntary pre-deployment framework for frontier AI systems.

Altman told reporters following the Capitol Hill sessions that the industry needs to pace AI development, noting he would not use the word deceleration. The briefing aligns with the government’s upcoming plans to establish a classified benchmark for assessing cybersecurity risks in advanced models.