OpenAI CEO to Testify Earlier than US Senate Panel Subsequent Week

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first look earlier than a Senate panel subsequent week because the US Congress grapples with how finest to control synthetic intelligence because the expertise turns into extra highly effective and widespread.

Altman will testify earlier than the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privateness, Expertise & the Legislation on Tuesday on what legal guidelines may be wanted to safeguard People as authorities and firms start to make use of AI in the whole lot from drugs to finance to surveilling employees.

It will likely be Altman’s first testimony earlier than Congress, the panel stated in saying the listening to.

Altman may also attend a dinner on Monday evening for members of the Home of Representatives, in line with Consultant Ted Lieu’s workplace which is co-hosting the occasion.

Altman was a part of a White Home assembly on AI final week that mentioned how to make sure regulatory safeguards. In response to a query about whether or not firms agree on laws, Altman instructed reporters, “We’re surprisingly on the identical web page on what must occur.”

One other of the witnesses is Christina Montgomery, chief privateness officer at IBM.

“Synthetic intelligence urgently wants guidelines and safeguards to deal with its immense promise and pitfalls,” stated Sen. Richard Blumenthal, chair of the panel. “This listening to begins our Subcommittee’s work in overseeing and illuminating AI’s superior algorithms and highly effective expertise.”

Not too long ago, Britain’s competitors regulator additionally stated it could begin inspecting the affect of synthetic intelligence on shoppers, companies, and the financial system and whether or not new controls had been wanted on applied sciences resembling OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The sudden reputation of generative AI functions resembling ChatGPT and Midjourney has highlighted a expertise that would upend the best way companies and society function.

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