ChatGPT Creator Wants an AI Regulatory Agency and That’ll Totally Work

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ChatGPT Creator Wants an AI Regulatory Agency and That’ll Totally Work OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made his Congressional debut before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee today. He rolled out the charm offensive to try and convince lawmakers to pursue light-handed legislation that gives artificial intelligence—company’s product ChatGPT first among them—a wide runway to rapidly advance. Altman’s rosy testimony expounding on the societal virtues of generative AI ran counter to other expert witnesses, who expressed more scepticism and brought up discrimination and other unintended AI harms. Altman said of the public’s understanding of ChatGPT and text-generating AI, “For a while, people were...