Lawmakers and AI companies agree regulation is necessary to prevent a potential catastrophe, but what that looks like and how to get there remains an open question.
WASHINGTON — At a U.S. Senate committee hearing focused on artificial intelligence issues, lawmakers bemoaned their collective failure in taking timely action to protect the public from the harms associated with social media platforms before they became an issue and vowed to not make the same mistake when it comes to regulating emerging generative AI tools.
He then put some of the latest AI-driven advancements on display by playing an audio recording that was created using voice cloning software and a statement created by the generative AI tool ChatGPT. The statement mimicked Blumenthal remarkably in both sound and content. Witnesses before the committee on Tuesday included Sam Altman, the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot; Gary Marcus, artificial intelligence researcher and NYU professor emeritus; and Christina Montgomery, chief privacy and trust officer for IBM.
Altman readily agreed with committee members that new regulatory frameworks were in order as AI tools in development by his company and others continue to take evolutionary leaps and bounds. He also warned that AI has the potential, as it continues to advance, to cause widespread harms. Montgomery advocated for a "precision" regulatory approach like the one currently under consideration by the European Union, the AI Act, that would create specific regulatory boundaries based on four risk levels that include unacceptable risk, high risk, limited risk, and minimal or no risk.
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