OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Asks Congress to Regulate AI. Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks during during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made an appeal to members of Congress under oath: Regulate artificial intelligence.
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Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:32 AM PDT·3 min read
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, calling on Congress to pass legislation to regulate the development of AI at a time when the technology is gaining traction across the tech industry and beyond.
“We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models,” Altman said in his opening remarks.
“For example, the US government might consider a combination of licensing and testing requirements for development and release of AI models above a threshold of capabilities.”
Both IBM Chief Privacy and Trust Officer Christina Montgomery and NYU Professor Gary Marcus, who also testified during the hearing, similarly called for regulating AI and making the technology more transparent so that users know when they are interacting with AI.
AI, and specifically generative AI that can be used to generate text, images, and more using models trained on data collected via the internet, has exploded in popularity since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022. Since then, Microsoft (MSFT), which has invested billions in OpenAI, has launched its generative AI-powered Bing search engine and chat bot.
Last week, Google (GOOG, GOOGL) debuted a series of new technologies that use generative AI as part of its Google I/O conference including a version of its powerful search engine.
During the hearing, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) illustrated the power of generative AI by using a version of ChatGPT trained on his prior floor speeches and a type of AI voice cloning software to read a completely made up opening statement that sounded like something Blumenthal might have said on his own.
“If you were listening from home, you might have thought that voice was mine and the words from me, but in fact, that voice was not mine. The words were not mine,” Blumenthal explained.
Senators raised several questions throughout the hearing about the potential for AI to be used to manipulate elections or cause other real-world harms…CONT…
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