Before the summit two weeks ago at the White House, then thehearing in the US Senate. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and father of ChatGPT, is engaged in a tour of the top American politicians. And just him, does not hide the dangers of an artificial intelligence left to itself, free to do and undo. Not only dangers for employment, one of the issues that most worries politicians in the face of the unbridled advance of artificial intelligence and its applications in the world of work and business organisation. Dangers, and great ones, Sam Altman sees for the correct management of the democracy, elections, social conflicts which can be influenced or even distorted by false communications passed off as true. «If this technology (artificial intelligence, ed) goes wrong, things could end very badly: we have to say it out loud and work with the government to prevent this from happening”, he said very clearly in front of the senators in Washington. That's why he asked the members of the US Senate to enact new rules and to entrust to a new government agency the task of assigning licenses for the development of large artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT o Google bard, with the power to revoke them if those models do not meet the standards set by the political power. A very important and significant hearing which makes us understand how complex the implications of the new technology are on our lives and which comes after the appeals of the economists Friedman and Harari and after the clamorous Geoffrey Everest Hinton resigns, the godfather of artificial intelligence at Google, who left Big G precisely to be able to speak freely about the risks associated with AI.
What Sam Altman said in the US Senate
The CEO of OpenAi, in his speech on artificial intelligence in the US Senate, went even further and hypothesized the birth of an international agency that oversees the rules and takes care of supervising them, on the model of what is done for energy nuclear where theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the point of reference for all operators at a global level. Second Sam altman it is a question of identifying safety standards for these artificial intelligence models, also evaluating their ability to reproduce themselves or to escape the manager's control by acting autonomously or remaining exposed to manipulation from the outside. This also means introducing a performance verification system entrusted to independent experts. In other words, Altman listed the crucial points of a regulatory plan capable of setting the rules of the game in a rapidly expanding sector, so fast that it worries not only the members of the American parliament but the protagonists of new technologies themselves.
Altman, on the other hand, said he was convinced that the new artificial intelligence technologies will offer humanity advantages that far exceed the risks and some negative effects such as the loss of automated jobs, but he did not underestimate the dangers. “It is essential that artificial intelligence is developed with democratic values. My biggest fear is that the AI field will really hurt the world,” he said.
