OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, calling on Congress to pass legislation to regulate the development of AI at a time when the technology is gaining traction across the tech industry and beyond, YahooFinance.com reported. “We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models,” Altman said in his opening remarks. “For example, the US government might consider a combination of licensing and testing requirements for development and release of AI models above a threshold of capabilities.” Both IBM Chief Privacy and Trust Officer Christina Montgomery and NYU Professor Gary Marcus, who also testified during the hearing, similarly called for regulating AI and making the technology more transparent so that users know when they are interacting with AI. AI, and specifically generative AI that can be used to generate text, images, and more using models trained on data collected via the internet, has exploded in popularity since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022. Since then, Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, has launched its generative AI-powered Bing search engine and chat bot. Last week, Google debuted a series of new technologies that use generative AI as part of its Google I/O conference including a version of its powerful search engine.
