--- title: The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal... description: OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer outlines a 'reverse federalism' approach to AI governance, where state-level legislation in California, New York, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-us-is-advancing-ai-safety-through-state-and-federal-action-dwbchgyx4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer outlines a 'reverse federalism' approach to AI governance, where state-level legislation in California, New York, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-us-is-advancing-ai-safety-through-state-and-federal-action-dwbchgyx4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DWbCHgyx4.png og:image:alt: The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action **[OpenAI](https://daily.dev/sources/openai)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer outlines a 'reverse federalism' approach to AI governance, where state-level legislation in California, New York, and Illinois establishes a de facto national standard for frontier AI safety. The core elements include documented safety frameworks with risk assessments, incident reporting, and independent audits. OpenAI argues this state alignment should converge with federal efforts — including a Trump Administration cyber testing framework and strengthened CAISI — to create a coherent national standard. That national standard would then serve as the foundation for a US-led international AI governance framework, as discussed at the G7 and proposed by Sam Altman in the Financial Times. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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