Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence

The creator of precocious chatbot ChatGPT has called connected US lawmakers to modulate artificial quality (AI).

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the institution down ChatGPT, testified earlier a US Senate committee connected Tuesday astir the possibilities - and pitfalls - of the caller technology.

In a substance of months, respective AI models person entered the market.

Mr Altman said a caller bureau should beryllium formed to licence AI companies.

ChatGPT and different akin programmes tin make incredibly human-like answers to questions - but tin besides beryllium wildly inaccurate.

Mr Altman, 38, has go a spokesperson of sorts for the burgeoning industry. He has not shied distant from addressing the ethical questions that AI raises, and has pushed for much regulation.

He said that AI could beryllium arsenic a large arsenic "the printing press" but acknowledged its imaginable dangers.

He besides admitted the interaction that AI could person connected the economy, including the likelihood that AI exertion could regenerate immoderate jobs, starring to layoffs successful definite fields.

"There volition beryllium an interaction connected jobs. We effort to beryllium precise wide astir that," helium said.

However, immoderate senators argued caller laws were needed to marque it easier for radical to writer OpenAI.

Mr Altman told legislators helium was disquieted astir the imaginable interaction connected democracy, and however AI could beryllium utilized to nonstop targeted misinformation during elections.

He gave respective suggestions for however a caller bureau successful the US could modulate the manufacture - including giving retired and taking distant permits for AI companies.

He besides said firms similar OpenAI should beryllium independently audited.

Republican Senator Josh Hawley said the exertion could beryllium revolutionary, but besides compared the caller tech to the invention of the "atomic bomb".

Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal observed that an AI-dominated aboriginal "is not needfully the aboriginal that we want".

"We request to maximize the bully implicit the bad. Congress has a prime now. We had the aforesaid prime erstwhile we faced societal media. We failed to prehend that moment," helium warned.

What was wide from the grounds is that determination is bi-partisan enactment for a caller assemblage to modulate the industry.

However, the exertion is moving truthful accelerated that legislators besides wondered whether specified an bureau would beryllium susceptible of keeping up.