Congressmen raised a number of concerns about artificial intelligence after Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told a Senate subcommittee that he saw problems the technology could bring.
“The overall risk is that China wins the AI race because obviously China would use the technology to advance its global ambitions and export its model of total techno-totalitarian control, which is nightmarish and would make Orwell blush.” Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher. “The other risk is that we don’t retain control of the technology and it somehow escapes our control.”
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that he had concerns about the possibilities of artificial intelligence. (Senate Judiciary)
Testifying before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, Altman said he is most concerned that AI could be used to create “one-to-one interactive disinformation” and that it could have “a significant impact on jobs.” In March, Altman told ABC News he had concerns about “authoritarian governments” developing AI.
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“When there are people like him, there are people like Elon Musk who come forward and say, ‘This is dangerous territory, we have to stop this,’ we really need to step back and think about what we’re really doing for them “Future of humanity,” said Anna Paulina Luna, Florida MP.
MP Anna Paulina Luna said she was concerned AI could not learn empathy. (Fox News Digital/Jon Michael Raasch)
Rep. Kat Cammack said she was concerned about political bias in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which she discussed with Altman at an AI briefing Monday. She told Fox News that the tech chief said the chatbot was unbiased and “50% Republican and 50% Democratic.”
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“But when I asked [ChatGPT] “To write a poem about Donald Trump, it responded that it couldn’t because Donald Trump is a controversial political figure,” Cammack told Fox News. “I immediately asked it to write a poem about Nancy Pelosi and it gave me four stanzas of enthusiastic commentary.”
According to the Florida Republican, in response, Altman called the issue “embarrassing” and worrying.
MP Kat Cammack told Fox News she was concerned about bias in AI. (Fox News Digital/Jon Michael Raasch)
The CEO also said during the subcommittee hearing that he hoped Congress would find a way to effectively regulate AI.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman agreed, saying Congress must ensure guard rails are in place for the technology and that the federal government should consider developing its own AI.
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“The federal government, I believe, should play a role in creating AI that can help the American people,” the New York Democrat told Fox News. “We need to see that the agencies also consider AI under their umbrella.”
However, some lawmakers believe that regulating the technology could threaten US AI dominance and that other options should be considered.
MP Jamaal Bowman suggested that the US government should develop its own AI. (Fox News Digital/Jon Michael Raasch)
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“At the very least, we need to make sure that American investors, so Sequoia and others, aren’t allowed to put money into Chinese AI companies like Baidu or broader tech companies like Tencent,” Gallagher said. “We fuel our own destruction.”
Luna, a fellow Republican, said, “Even if we do make regulations here in the United States, there are other countries that still do.”
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Isabelle McDonnell contributed to this video.