Urged to regulate artificial intelligence to mitigate risks | 07 MAY 24
Sam Altman guaranteed an impact on jobs and called for caution.
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, urged to regulate artificial intelligence during a hearing in the US Senate. “We believe that government regulatory intervention will be essential to mitigate risks increasingly powerful models,” Altman said in his initial speech before a Senate judiciary subcommittee.
A growing list of tech companies have deployed new AI tools in recent months, with the potential to change the way we work, we buy and interact with each other. But these same tools have also drawn criticism for their potential to disrupt millions of jobs, spread misinformation, and perpetuate bias.
“There will be an impact on employment,” Altman said. “We’re trying to be very clear about this, and I think it’s going to take collaboration between industry and government, but especially government action, to figure out how we want to mitigate it. But I’m very optimistic about how big the jobs of the future will be.” .
As CEO of OpenAI, Altman, perhaps more than any other figure, has become the face of a new generation of AI products capable of generating images and texts in response to user instructions.
Some people hope that Altman and OpenAI act more cautiously. Elon Muskwho helped found OpenAI before parting ways with the group, joined dozens of tech leaders, professors and researchers in signing a letter calling on AI labs like OpenAI to stop training AI systems more potent for at least six months, citing “profound risks to society and humanity.”
Altman acknowledged agreeing with parts of the letter. “I think that move cautiously and increasing rigor for security issues is really important,” Altman said at an event last month.
| Warnings about artificial intelligence |
Beyond how surprising the advances of artificial intelligence are, its massive emergence also brought about Negative effectsin many cases with emphasis on labor issues or copyright.
In July of last year, a Google engineer He was fired by the company due to an issue that at that time did not cause as much impact as it does now on the general public.
