OpenAI just said it wants Washington to lead a global effort to establish AI standards, as a consequential week of diplomatic discussions on AI safety coordination between Chinese and American officials begins. But would Beijing be happy to trust the US to define global standards? In a blog post published on Monday, OpenAI called on the US government to utilize existing AI safety organizations like the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and work with other countries to “develop global technical standards for frontier AI, including for RSI,” which stands for recursive self-improvement, aka when the process of new…