OpenAI is asking the U.S. government to lead an effort with other countries to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier artificial-intelligence systems.

In a proposal published Monday, the company suggested that countries around the world should set common measures for evaluating self-improving AI systems, and establish secure channels to share emerging threats.

The U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation could work with the emerging network of AI safety institutes around the world-such as existing groups in the U.K., France, and Singapore-to create these standards, the company said.

The call to action comes just days after leaders across the tech industry called for industrywide coordination to pace the frontier of AI development.

OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki recommended this month that international coordination on AI should become a priority for governments around the world to address the risks of self-improving AI systems. Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei last month offered a proposal to pace frontier AI development, and asked Washington to issue a narrow waiver for tech companies to discuss safety and security measures. The Trump administration has resisted the calls. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last week that AI labs shouldn't receive a "liability exemption, which is what they are asking for." Bessent reaffirmed that "the best way to guarantee is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate."

President Trump chimed in on social media Monday: "Whoever wins AI, WINS! We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I'm going to keep it that way! I'm not going to stifle Growth, of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself."

He added that the Justice Department and other law enforcement bodies could "rein things in if we have to."