Senate Democrats and an independent senator wrote to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding the company's safety standards and policies for hiring whistleblowers. The most important part of this letter, as revealed by The Washington Post for the first time, may be the ninth item, which asks whether OpenAI has committed to providing its next base model for testing, review, analysis, and evaluation by US government agencies before deployment. The letter also lists 11 other issues that need to be addressed, including ensuring that OpenAI commits to using 20% of its computing power for security research and developing agreements to prevent malicious actors or foreign adversaries from stealing OpenAI products.