ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Advocates for AI Regulation in the United States

On Tuesday, Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT’s OpenAI, emphasized to US lawmakers the importance of artificial intelligence regulation.

The developer of the complex chatbot ChatGPT has requested that artificial intelligence (AI) be regulated by US politicians.

The founder and CEO of the business that created ChatGPT, Sam Altman, spoke to a US Senate committee, yesterday, on Tuesday about the advantages and disadvantages of the new technology.

Presently, 1.16 billion people are using ChatGPT. In March 2023, there were 1 billion users. These figures showed a rise of about 55% between February 2023 and March 2023. While detractors have criticized the free service for its propensity to spit out erroneous information, the public has been astounded by its capacity to provide human-like responses to an endless variety of stimuli.

Altman declined to elaborate on particular scenarios when asked about his greatest concern with AI, but he did admit that the business can seriously hurt the planet. He emphasized the crucial idea that if AI technology goes wrong, the results might be quite bad.

He claimed that the business sector may “significant harm to the world” and that “if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.”

Before releasing advanced AI models, Altman recommended that the US government might adopt licensing and testing procedures, with the authority to cancel permits if restrictions were broken.

Additionally, he advocated for labeling, improved international cooperation in developing regulations for the technology, and established a specific US agency to deal with artificial intelligence.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, noted that a future ruled by AI “is not necessarily the future that we want”. “We need to maximize the good over the bad. Congress has a choice now. We had the same choice when we faced social media. We failed to seize that moment,” he warned.

According to Mr. Altman, one possibility for using AI to target misinformation and mislead voters is “my areas of greatest concern,” particularly since “we’re going to face an election next year and these models are getting better.”

The AI Act, which is up for a vote in the European Parliament, was highlighted by Senator Blumenthal as a sign of Europe’s progress in regulating AI. The proposed EU regulation may forbid the use of some policing AI systems, emotion detection software, and biometric surveillance.

Additionally, for generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E, US lawmakers emphasized the need for user notifications to inform users when the output is produced by a machine.

IBM’s chief privacy and trust officer, Christina Montgomery, pleaded with lawmakers to avoid imposing overly broad regulations on AI. “A chatbot that can share restaurant recommendations or draft an email has different impacts on society than a system that supports decisions on credit, housing, or employment,” she said.

Critics contend that focusing on these far-off worries about super-strong AI systems could divert attention and make it more difficult to solve current ills, such as those involving data openness, discriminatory conduct, deception, and misinformation.

“Weaponized disinformation, housing discrimination, harassment of women and impersonation fraud, voice cloning, deep fakes – these are the potential risks despite the other rewards,” Blumenthal said.

Democrats Blumenthal voiced worry that unscrupulous actors could deceive the public with phony statements from public figures with the help of AI. Blumenthal raised the prospect of AI deep fake audio that would show him or others supporting Vladimir Putin’s government or calling for Ukraine to submit.

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