OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first look earlier than a Senate panel subsequent week because the US Congress grapples with how greatest to regulate artificial intelligence because the know-how 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 may be wanted to safeguard Americans as authorities and corporations start to use AI in every part from medication to finance to surveilling employees.
It will probably be Altman’s first testimony earlier than Congress, the panel mentioned in asserting the listening to.
Altman may also attend a dinner on Monday night time for members of the House of Representatives, in accordance to 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 guarantee regulatory safeguards. In response to a query about whether or not corporations agree on rules, Altman instructed reporters, “We’re surprisingly on the same page on what needs to happen.”
Another of the witnesses is Christina Montgomery, chief privateness officer at IBM.
“Artificial intelligence urgently needs rules and safeguards to address its immense promise and pitfalls,” mentioned Sen. Richard Blumenthal, chair of the panel. “This hearing begins our Subcommittee’s work in overseeing and illuminating AI’s advanced algorithms and powerful technology.”
Recently, Britain’s competitors regulator additionally mentioned it will begin inspecting the affect of synthetic intelligence on shoppers, companies, and the economic system and whether or not new controls have been wanted on applied sciences resembling OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The sudden recognition of generative AI purposes resembling ChatGPT and Midjourney has highlighted a know-how that would upend the way in which companies and society function.
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