Sam Altman thinks an international agency can help regulate AI.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants an international agency to regulate artificial intelligence.Altman said an agency approach would be better than inflexible laws given AI's rapid evolution.He compared AI to airplanes, emphasizing the need for a safety testing framework.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's keen on regulating AI with an international agency."I think there will come a time in the not-so-distant future, like we're not talking decades and decades from now, where frontier AI systems are capable of causing significant global harm," Altman said on the All-In podcast on Friday.He believes those systems will have "negative impact way beyond the realm of one country" and wants to see them regulated by "an international agency looking at the most powerful systems and ensuring reasonable safety testing."In Altman's view, landing on the appropriate level of oversight will be a balancing act."I'd be super nervous about regulatory overreach here.