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Altman asks the Senate to regulate AI
A tech chief and the senators questioning him agreed AI should be regulated
Key facts
- Date
- 16 May 2023
- Era
- The ChatGPT shock
- Interest
- Laws & rulings
- Threads
- Safety & governance, Labs & people
- Hearing
- Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence (Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law)
- Witnesses
- Sam Altman (OpenAI), Christina Montgomery (IBM), Gary Marcus (NYU)
- Chair
- Senator Richard Blumenthal
Sam Altman testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee alongside IBM's Christina Montgomery and the scientist Gary Marcus. Unusually for a tech hearing, he largely agreed with lawmakers, proposing an agency that would license large AI models and set safety tests before release.
Sources
- US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence, 2023-05-16
- The New York Times, OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing, 2023-05-16