OpenAI backs binding UK AI legislation

The article quotes OpenAI's Tom Duff Gordon saying that Andy Burnham's government should "take advantage of this political window which is clearly opening up" in order to pursue AI legislation. The position is presented in the article as OpenAI's, conveyed by Duff Gordon.

Duff Gordon said any U.K. legislation should be narrowly focused on the most serious risks related to national security. Both statements are attributed to Duff Gordon, and no other speaker is quoted in the excerpt. The article does not describe a draft text, a proposed scope beyond the national security framing, or any specific legislative mechanism.

The article does not set out a timetable for legislation or a response from the U.K. government to the call. It characterises the current period as a political window that Duff Gordon describes as "clearly opening up," and it places the U.K. In the article's account, OpenAI's stated preference is for legislation limited to the most serious risks related to national security, with the binding character of that legislation reflected in the headline.