OpenAI's Global Affairs team released a statement calling California's SB 53 and Illinois's SB 315 insufficient and urging revisions while endorsing requirements for 'monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation,' after the Trump administration finalized an AI safety framework on August 4, 2026 requiring voluntary 30-day pre-release review for closed frontier models while exempting open-weight models.
OpenAI executive Chris Lehane had also told Politico in June 2026 that the White House's proposed AI benchmarking process may create confusion about how much NSA scrutiny its models face.