The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday urged CEOs of a number of synthetic intelligence (AI) corporations to prioritize safety measures, fight bias, and responsibly roll out new applied sciences.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner raised issues about potential dangers posed by AI know-how. “Beyond industry commitments, however, it is also clear that some level of regulation is necessary in this field,” mentioned Warner, who despatched letters to the CEOs of OpenAI, Scale AI, Meta Platforms, Alphabet‘s Google, Apple, Stability AI, Midjourney, Anthropic, Percipient.ai, and Microsoft.
“With the increasing use of AI across large swaths of our economy, and the possibility for large language models to be steadily integrated into a range of existing systems, from healthcare to finance sectors, I see an urgent need to underscore the importance of putting security at the forefront of your work,” Warner mentioned.
Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer mentioned he had launched an effort to set up AI guidelines and tackle nationwide safety and schooling issues, as use of packages like ChatGPT turns into widespread.
Schumer, a Democrat, mentioned in a press release he had drafted and circulated a “framework that outlines a new regulatory regime that would prevent potentially catastrophic damage to our country while simultaneously making sure the USÂ advances and leads in this transformative technology.”
ChatGPT, an AI program that not too long ago grabbed the general public’s consideration for its capacity to write solutions rapidly to a variety of queries, specifically has attracted USÂ lawmakers’ consideration. It has grow to be the fastest-growing client utility in historical past with greater than 100 million month-to-month lively customers.
Microsoft is an enormous investor in OpenAI, which created ChatGPT. The software program firm and Google have been pouring billions of {dollars} into AI to acquire an edge amid heightened competitors in Silicon Valley.
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