Alongside regulation, OpenAI wants frontier AI developers to adopt common monitoring practices, particularly as models gain greater autonomy and access to tools. It has also called for compatible international approaches as advanced models and AI expertise spread across borders.

What this could mean for CIOs

Under the approach OpenAI is advocating, the immediate regulatory burden would largely fall on frontier AI developers rather than their enterprise customers, according to Pareekh Jain, CEO of Pareekh Consulting. But CIOs could encounter downstream effects in how they govern the models they deploy.

“AI governance would increasingly resemble cybersecurity governance as enterprises would need to know which models are being used, what they can do, what data and systems they can access, and how much autonomy they have,” Jain said.