“It is essential to regulate artificial intelligence, and that those regulations ensure that the public access the many benefits of this technology,” he said. sam altman, Open AI CEO during his appearance before a committee of US senators. The 38-year-old businessman, creator of the famous ChatGPT, has surprisingly called for regulating the development and jobs of the artificial intelligence (AI).
In that regard, Altman has recently become the spokesperson for the artificial intelligence industry. His statement, on the use of AI, pointed to both the use on US soil as part of a global initiative to ensure that the public access “the many benefits of the technology” but also to avoid “significant harm for the world”.
The director of the firm OpenAI has appeared this Tuesday before a privacy and technology commission of the Senate, in which the benefits and risks involved in the excessive development of AI were addressed. The advent of ChatGPT, in the last quarter of last year, reignited the race to develop technology tools that could change the world as we know it, lawmakers explained during the hearing. “My worst fear is that this technology will go wrong. And if it goes wrong, it can go very wrong,” the businessman told the congressmen.
Typically, interrogations against the directors and executives of technology firms result in a very aggressive conversation on Capitol Hill, as in the case of Facebook or TikTok, But Altman has assured that he understands the views that are concerned about the development of AI, and that he himself also has reservations such as the mass disclosure of disinformation. Therefore, he stated that he is aware of the impact that these tools can have on the creative industry, as well as the challenges that he brings to the future of work.
The senator of Illinois and chairman of the commissionDick Durbin, declared the hearing as a “historic” appearance, since the technological industries are usually very reluctant to state intervention in their projects. On the contrary, Altman has shown himself willing to support and even propose the creation of government agencies that are in charge of controlling the development, operation and release to the market of the new AI models that are carried out from now on.
“America should be the first country to do something. But I think that, as chimerical as it sounds, I also think that this should also be a global effort”, was heard in the room. In that sense, Altman suggested the creation of an international body that establishes standards for AI, just as a structure was installed around nuclear weapons.
At the hearing on Tuesday, the director of IBM, Christina Montgomery, Gary Marcusprofessor emeritus of the new york university, critic of AI. Marcus recommended the more acid views of the meeting, but the three have agreed with the senators to create a kind of government agency that emulates the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to pre-examine a tool and grant it a license to operate, as well as another institution that follows up on them and constantly monitors them.
In this regard, the leader of OpenAI agreed on the need for a regulation that grants and cancels tenders to companies to develop artificial intelligence, to “guarantee compliance with the rules.” Proceeding to generate a package of security rules and “create protocols to discover when a model is capable of replicating itself.”
The three respondents also agreed on the importance that legislators do not make “the same mistakes” that were made with social networks, which are now difficult to restrict. The NYU professor stated: “We act very slowly. Many unfortunate decisions had lasting consequences. The decisions we make now will have effects for decades, perhaps even centuries.”
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