OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has downplayed concerns that ChatGPT makers could exit the European Union if they fail to comply with the EU’s strict new artificial intelligence rules.
LONDON–OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday downplayed concerns that ChatGPT makers could exit the European Union if they fail to comply with the EU’s tough new artificial intelligence rules. , This was after he was reprimanded by a senior government official for remarks suggesting that possibility.
Altman is traveling to Europe as part of a world tour to meet with stakeholders and promote his AI company, which has created a buzz around the world.
During a stopover in London this week, he said OpenAI could leave if the EU’s ongoing artificial intelligence rules were too strict. This prompted the European Commissioner, Thierry Breton, to accuse the company of threatening the company on social media.
Digital policy chief Breton linked to a Financial Times article that quoted Altman as saying that OpenAI “will try to comply, but if it doesn’t, it will shut down.”
Altman tried to calm things down the next day, tweeting: We are excited to continue working here and of course have no plans to leave. “
The European Union is at the forefront of a global effort to develop guardrails for artificial intelligence, with the AI law entering its final stages after years of work. The rapid rise of general-purpose AI chatbots like ChatGPT has caught EU officials off-guard, enabling them to generate compelling, human-like conversational answers, essays, and other responses to questions from EU officials. I panicked to add a clause covering so-called generative AI systems that can generate , images, etc. user.
“Attempting blackmail by claiming that Europe is slowing the deployment of generative #AI by creating a clear framework is pointless,” Bretton said in a tweet. He added that the EU aims to “help companies prepare” for the AI law.
Altmann tweeted that the European tour will also include Warsaw, Poland. Munich, Germany. Paris; Madrid; Lisbon, Portugal. and London. There is no mention of Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union.
He met with world leaders including British Prime Minister Rishi Snack, French President Emmanuel Macron, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Tech executives are entering the debate over whether and how to regulate artificial intelligence.
Microsoft President Brad Smith unveiled a blueprint for AI public governance on Thursday. Altman told lawmakers this month that AI should be regulated by U.S. or global agencies because increasingly powerful systems require government intervention to mitigate risks.
Altman was also mobbed by students when he showed up for a “fireside chat” at University College London on Wednesday. He told the audience that the “right answer” for regulating AI is “probably somewhere between the traditional European, UK approach and the traditional US approach.”
“I don’t think we really want to over-regulate this technology before we know what it’s going to look like,” Altman said.
He said it was still possible to devise “some sort of global set of norms and enforcements” and that AI regulations would be “a recurring topic” on a world tour that included visits to Toronto, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico. added. Lagos, Nigeria.
