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 manage artificial intelligence because the expertise turns into extra highly effective and widespread.
Altman will testify earlier than the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology & the Law on Tuesday on what legal guidelines is likely to be wanted to safeguard Americans as authorities and firms start to make use of AI in every little thing from drugs to finance to surveilling staff.
It can be Altman’s first testimony earlier than Congress, the panel mentioned in asserting the listening to.
Altman will even attend a dinner on Monday night time for members of the House of Representatives, in accordance with Representative Ted Lieu’s workplace which is co-hosting the occasion.
Altman was a part of a White House 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 rules, Altman advised reporters, “We’re surprisingly on the identical web page on what must occur.”
Another of the witnesses is Christina Montgomery, chief privateness officer at IBM.
“Artificial intelligence urgently wants guidelines and safeguards to handle its immense promise and pitfalls,” mentioned 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.”
Recently, Britain’s competitors regulator additionally mentioned it will begin analyzing the affect of synthetic intelligence on customers, 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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