Watch: 'If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. We want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before Congress about artificial intelligence
Altman, whose company is on the extreme forefront of generative A.I. technology with itstool, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time in a Tuesday hearing. And while he said he is ultimately optimistic that innovation will benefit people on a grand scale, Altman echoed his previous assertion that lawmakers should create parameters for AI creators to avoid causing “significant harm to the world.
The senators leading the questioning, however, were more skeptical about the rapidly evolving AI industry, likening its potential impact not to the printing press but a few other innovations—most notably, the atomic bomb.Sen. Richard Blumenthal , chair of the group’s subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, revealed his wariness of AI when he replied: “Some of us might characterize it more like a bomb in a china shop, not a bull.
Early on, Sen. Dick Durbin remarked that he could not recall a time when representatives for private sector entities had ever pleaded for regulation.When Sen. Josh Hawley cited research, for example, that Large Language Models like ChatGPT could draw from a media diet to accurately predict public opinion, he asked Altman whether bad actors could use that technology to finetune responses and manipulate people to change their opinions on a given topic.
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