'If This Technology Goes Wrong, It Can Go Quite Wrong': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Urges US Lawmakers To Prioritise AI Regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasised the importance of regulating AI to US lawmakers on Tuesday.

Lawmakers expressed their concern over AI development, with a senator using a computer-generated voice, almost identical to his own, to read a text composed by a bot at a hearing on Capitol Hill.

Senator Richard Blumenthal stated that although the voice and words may have sounded like his own to those listening from home, it was not actually him speaking.

According to Blumenthal, AI technology is 'more than just research experiments', no longer fantasies of science fiction but a real and current phenomenon.

"If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong," Altman said, reports AFP.

US lawmakers emphasised their intention to classify generative AI systems li, including ChatGPT and DALL-E, as requiring special transparency measures that alert users to the fact that the output was created by a machine.

DALL-E by OpenAI enabled easy generation of graphics and Van Gogh-like lookalikes online with a few clicks since its launch last year.