Artificial intelligence will bring us a lot of good, but it can also do a lot of harm, so the government should issue a clear set of rules and create an agency to regulate the field of AI. Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, was well received by the US Congress, unlike other hearings of tech leaders in the past.

Sam Altman, 38, became a celebrity thanks to the success of ChatGPT, a conversational “bot” that sparked an AI frenzy. He told senators that artificial intelligence could eventually revolutionize the world in the same way that the printing press did more than 500 years ago.

He also said that artificial intelligence technology could cause a lot of damage and called for a government agency to license various companies in the field.

Republican Senator Josh Hawley warned that AI technology could be as dangerous as an atomic bomb.

The head of OpenAI talked about the “risky” behavior of chatbots like ChatGPT, talking about “one-on-one interactive misinformation” and “emotional manipulation”.

“If the technology fails, it can fail,” says the head of OpenAI.

He also acknowledged that it would affect jobs, with some people losing their jobs because technology could do their jobs.

The senators said legislation is needed to make it easier to sue OpenAI when people are hurt by errors in the company’s products.

Compared to the hearings of other tech executives like Facebook or TikTok, this time the senators were much kinder and listened more to Altman’s words, contradicting him much less often.

why Not only is the field of artificial intelligence very little known to US senators, OpenAI and ChatGPT have not been involved in any scandals like Facebook with Cambridge Analytica or TikTok and its ties to China.

Sources: AFP, BBC, Washington Post