Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI Inc. , speaking during TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 3, 2019.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a recent interview hv news He is “a little afraid” of AI technology and how it could affect the workforce, elections, and the spread of misinformation.
OpenAI developed the ChatGPT bot, which creates human-like answers to questions and sparked a new AI craze.
“I think people are really having fun [ChatGPT]Altman said in the interview.
But his excitement about the transformative potential of AI technology, which Altman said would eventually reflect “collective strength, creativity and human will,” was balanced by his concerns about “authoritarian regimes” developing competing AI technology.
“We worry a lot about authoritarian governments developing this,” Altmann said. Foreign governments have already begun to bring competing AI technology to market.
For example, Chinese technology company Baidu recently held a launch event for its competitor ChatGPT, an AI chat bot called Ernie bot.
Years before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that whoever becomes a leader in AI technology “will be the ruler of the world.” Altman called the comments “spine-chilling”.
Google and Microsoft have both aggressively stepped up their AI plays. Microsoft has chosen to partner with Altman’s OpenAI to integrate GPT technology into Bing search. Google’s Alphabet has unveiled an in-house developed chatbot called Bard AI, to mixed feedback from Google employees and test drivers.
The impact of ChatGPT and AI tools like it hasn’t reverberated throughout the US election process, but Altman said the 2024 election was a focus for the company.
“I am particularly concerned that these models could be used for disinformation on a massive scale,” the ABC chief executive said.
“Now that they’ve started writing computer code, [models] It can be used to launch offensive cyberattacks.”
ChatGPT’s programming prowess has already left a mark on many developers. Altman said he already serves as a “co-pilot” for programmers, and OpenAI is working to open similar positions for “every profession.”
The CEO acknowledged that it could mean a lot of people would lose their jobs, but said it would be an opportunity to come up with a better kind of job.
“We can have a much higher quality of life, a much higher standard of living,” Altmann said. “People need time to update, interact and get used to this technology.”
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