OpenAI Publishes Federal AI Safety Blueprint, Pitching 'Reverse Federalism' Approach

OpenAI has released a policy blueprint calling on Congress to build a national frontier-AI safety framework atop existing state laws, an approach the company brands "reverse federalism." The document, titled *Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A blueprint for a federal framework*, was made public in early June and lays out how state-level rules could seed a unified federal standard for the most capable AI systems.