In response to widespread worries about the quick development of artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT maker OpenAI CEO said on Monday that while regulation could be done incorrectly, it is important and should not be feared.
A global AI safety summit will be held in November in Britain and will focus on understanding the risks posed by cutting-edge technology and how national and international frameworks could be supported. Many nations are planning AI regulation.
Sam Altman, the CEO and public face of Microsoft Corp.-backed startup OpenAI, stated during a visit to Taipei that although he was not overly concerned about excessive government regulation, it could occur.
“I also worry about under-regulation. People in our industry bash regulation a lot. We’ve been calling for regulation, but only of the most powerful systems,” he said.
“Models that are like 10,000 times the power of GPT4, models that are like as smart as human civilisation, whatever, those probably deserve some regulation,” added Altman, speaking at an AI event hosted by the charitable foundation of Terry Gou, the founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn.
Altman said that in the tech industry, there is a “reflexive anti-regulation thing”.
“Regulation has not been a pure good, but it’s been good in a lot of ways. I don’t want to have to make an opinion about how safe it’s going to be every time I step on an aeroplane, but I trust that they’re pretty safe, and I think regulation has been a positive thing there,” he said.
“It is possible to get regulation wrong, but I don’t think we sit around and fear it. We think some version of it is important.”
Gou, who is currently running as an independent candidate to be Taiwan’s next president, sat in the audience but did not speak at the forum.