Sam Altman, the executive director and co-founder of Open AI, developer of the controversial ChatGPT text generation program, asked the United States Congress on Tuesday to regulate the development and uses of the artificial intelligence (AI).
“My worst fear is that we will cause significant damage to the world,” he revealed to a Senate subcommittee while raising the need for governments to intervene, the only security of protecting and respecting the rights and freedoms of citizens.
Although he recognized that AI can be used for the benefit of humanity in the field of medicine, with the potential to help find solutions to problems such as cancer, the 38-year-old warned about its dark side: how the functions of these Robots could replace human labor in some occupational areas.
“There will be an impact on jobs. We try to be very clear about that,” Altman said. He further admitted the impact that AI could have when used as a weapon in elections.
“The US government should consider a combination of licensing or registration requirements for the development and release of AI models above a crucial threshold of capabilities, along with incentives for full compliance with these requirements,” Altman proposed.
ChatGPT is a powerful tool with capacity for information processing and logical reasoning. Chatbots offer very complete answers to questions or orders from users.
Altman’s concerns come less than a month after will abandon His position at Google was Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist, Turing Award winner in 2018, considered the “godfather” of AI, concerned about the security problems that this technology entails.
Nor is it the first time that a technology executive appears before Congress. In April 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a House oversight committee.
Then, the British firm Cambridge Analytica obtained data from more than 50 million users of the social network with the aim of influencing the US elections in favor of Donald Trump’s campaign.
