Sam Altman, chief executive of the OpenAI firm that developed ChatGPT, called for state regulation of artificial intelligence in Tuesday testimony to US Congress.
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ChatGPT is a chatbot tool that answers questions with human-like responses.
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OpenAI was founded by Altman in 2015. It has developed other AI products, including the image-maker DALL-E.
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Altman's testimony comes a week after two European parliamentary committees voted in favor of draft legislation that aims to set up rules around AI.
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"As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are too," Altman said.
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"OpenAI was founded on the belief that artificial intelligence has the potential to improve nearly every aspect of our lives, but also that it creates serious risks," Altman told a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing.
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Altman said that he believed that generative AI will one day "address some of humanity's biggest challenges, like climate change and curing cancer."
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"We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models," he said.
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Altman proposed regulations that would include a combination of licensing and testing requirements before AI models are released. He also suggested labelling and an increase in global coordination.
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"I think the US should lead here and do things first, but to be effective we do need something global," he said.
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Altman argued that a new regulatory agency should impose safeguards that would block AI models that could "self-replicate and self-exfiltrate into the wild."
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Subcommittee chairman Richard Blumenthal opened the session by playing a recording of an AI version of himself reading out a text created by ChatGPT.
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Blumenthal said that artificial intelligence technologies "are more than just research experiments."
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"They are no longer fantasies of science fiction, they are real and present," he said.
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"What if I had asked it, and what if it had provided, an endorsement of Ukraine surrendering or (Russian President) Vladimir Putin's leadership?" the lawmaker asked.
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Blumenthal proposed that AI firms be obliged to disclose known risks before releasing new systems.
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The lawmaker also expressed concerns on how AI could disrupt the job market.
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