The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday urged the CEOs of several artificial intelligence (AI) companies to prioritize safeguards, tackle bias and roll out new technologies responsibly.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner raised concerns about the potential risks oh technology. “Beyond industry commitments, however, it is also clear that some level of regulation is necessary in this area,” Warner said. OpenAIoh scales meta platform, Alphabet‘S Google, AppleStability AI, Midjourney, Anthropic, Perceptive.AI and Microsoft,
“With the growing use of AI across large sectors of our economy, and the prospect of large language models being steadily integrated into a range of existing systems, from healthcare to finance, I feel it urgent to underline the importance of security. The need appears to be at the forefront of its work,” Warner said.
Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he had launched an effort to establish AI rules and address national security and education concerns, using programs such as chatgpt becomes widespread.
Schumer, a Democrat, said in a statement that he “drafted and circulated a framework that outlines a new regulatory regime that will prevent potentially catastrophic damage to our country, as well as ensure that Let America step up and move forward in this transformative technology.”
ChatGPT, an AI program that has recently attracted public attention for its ability to quickly compose answers to a wide range of questions, has particularly attracted the attention of US lawmakers. It has become the fastest growing consumer application in history with over 100 million monthly active users.
Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, which built ChatGPT. Software giants and Google are pouring billions of dollars into AI in a bid to gain an edge amid rising competition in Silicon Valley.
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