ChatGPT’s chief testifies before Congress about AI

His San Francisco-based startup rocketed to public attention after it released ChatGPT late last year.

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May 16, 2023 - 4:04 PM

ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence software application developed by OpenAI. Photo by (AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/LIONEL BONAVENTURE/TNS)

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention “will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful” AI systems.

“As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are too,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified at a Senate hearing Tuesday.

Altman proposed the formation of a U.S. or global agency that would license the most powerful AI systems and have the authority to “take that license away and ensure compliance with…

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