ChatGPT chief asks to be regulated, but does he mean it?
The boss OpenAI, creator of the chatbot, has called for regulation of his own product, but the current discussions are being dominated by those with vested interests, and that is dangerous.
Last week, we were treated to the latest round of the US Senate grappling with worrying advances in tech, as Senators quizzed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and two other expert witnesses about the dangers and need for guardrails around generative AI.
Rebecca Johnson is an expert on the ethics of Large Language Models and Generative AI. She spent a year at Google Research in the Ethical AI team and Responsible AI division, and is a final year PhD researcher at The University of Sydney. Email Rebecca at rebecca.johnson@sydney.edu.au
