2023-05-17 00:18:25
A few days after Geoffrey Hinton’s warning, there is a new call for caution regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI). “To limit the risks” presented by this technology, the intervention of governments to regulate its development and use will be “crucial”, pleaded, Tuesday, Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, creator of the interface. ChatGPT, before a US parliamentary committee. “It is essential that the most powerful AI be developed with democratic values”, estimated the young entrepreneur of 38 years, “which means that the leadership of the United States is decisive”.
The launch of ChatGPT, in November, increased the interest of the public, but also of companies, for so-called generative artificial intelligence, that is to say capable of creating content, text, images, sounds or video, after being trained on huge databases. Generative AI is unleashing passions and many are also worried about its potential impact on a range of professions, with possible massive job cuts, but more broadly on society as a whole.
“Serious risks”
“Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve just about every aspect of our lives, but it also creates serious risks,” acknowledged Sam Altman, during his hearing by the Senate subcommittee on the protection of privacy, technology and the law. “One of my biggest fears is that we, this industry, this technology, will cause significant harm to society,” said Sam Altman. “If this technology goes the wrong way, it can go quite far. (…) And we want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. »
The 30-year-old recalled that while OpenAI LP, the entity that developed ChatGPT, was a private company, it was controlled by a non-profit organization, “which requires us to work for the wide distribution of the benefits of AI and to maximize the safety of AI-based systems”.
Sam Altman has regularly expressed his support for the establishment of a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, preferably at the international level. “I know it seems naive to propose something like that, it seems very difficult”, to achieve, but “there are precedents”, he explained, citing the example of the International Agency for Energy (IAEA), and while discussions are underway at European level for the adoption of the Artificial Intelligence Act (IA Act), which is to be voted on in Brussels in June.
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