2023-05-25 13:45:36
The company you created ChatGPT, OpenAIit could “go out of business” in the European Union (EU) if it is not capable of complying with the new law that will regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in the community block. This was warned this Wednesday by his co-founder and CEO, Sam Altmanwho is currently on a European tour to try to influence that regulationwhich does not look kindly on.
In an act at University College London, Altman said he had “a lot” of criticism about the wording of the new regulation, which should be approved during June. Although it is still under review, the law categorizes the uses of AI according to its risk to establish more or less strict obligations. The text places large language models such as the one supported by ChatGPT under the label of “high risk”, which would force OpenAI -participated by Microsoft– to comply with transparency and risk management requirements and submit to strict external audits to monitor the data used by the chatbot.
Altman doesn’t like this idea. “We will be able to meet those requirements or we won’t. If we can meet them we will, and if we can’t we will stop operating… We will try, but there are technical limits to what is possible,” he explained in London.
pressure tour
That is why in recent days he has made a tour to meet with European regulators and address this issue. That ‘tour’ has led him to sit next to the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezbut also from its French counterpart, Emmanuel Macronand the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. It’s not clear if Altman has come out of those meetings in a better position than he did when he came in.
In the aforementioned act, the head of OpenAI pointed out that the law finalizing Brussels “it’s not inherently flawed” but that “the subtle details here really matter.” He also said that his preference for regulation was “something between the traditional European approach and the traditional American approach,” without qualifying what he meant by that.
The trip to Europe, according to Altman, is also because OpenAI is looking for a venue to open offices on the continent. “We want to make a research and engineering office in Europe, not regulation. We are trying to figure it out,” he explained Tuesday. “Poland would be an interesting place.”
regulatory surge
Interestingly, Altman’s tour has not included a stop at Italia, a country that temporarily blocked access to ChatGPT on suspicion that it could violate the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD). Roma ended up lifting that veto when the company made certain changes to the chatbot, including enabling an option so that it does not “remember” the data shared by users from one session to another.
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