Sam Altman Isn’t the Answer to Regulating Artificial Intelligence
The OpenAI CEO declined to become the US AI regulator in a bizarre congressional hearing that ignored good policy ideas already in play.
Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, appears for testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law.
Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images North AmericaTechnology executives who appear before Senate committees tend to be verbally whipped to the point of abject humiliation. Not Sam Altman.
On Tuesday, senators initially went after the OpenAI chief executive officer with questions about the terrors of artificial intelligence, from manipulating citizens to invading their privacy. To their surprise, Altman agreed with everything they said, and more. “Yes, we should be concerned about that,” he said gravely, when Senator Josh Hawley asked about how AI models could “supercharge the war for attention” online.