OpenAI, the start-up founded by Sam
Altman that launched ChatGPT, is opposing a Californian bill -
the so-called SB 1047 - aimed at averting risks from advanced AI
models.
In a letter addressed to the bill's sponsor, Scott Wiener, a
California state senator, Jason Kwon, the start-up's chief
strategy officer, warned against the fact that the upcoming bill
represents a threat to "California's unique status as world
leader in artificial intelligence".
The bill, he wrote, could "slow down the pace of innovation and
lead world-class Californian engineers and entrepreneurs to
leave the State in search of greater opportunities elsewhere".
OpenAI is the latest Silicon Valley company to voice doubts on
California's attempt to regulate artificial intelligence in
order to mitigate the risks linked to the new technology and its
future developments. For his part, Wiener has defended the bill,
which is expected to be voted on by the end of the month,
criticizing the "tired argument" that tech start-ups would move
away if the measure were approved.
The bill foresees an obligation for AI companies to test their
systems and to set up additional security measures to avert them
being potentially manipulated, for example to destroy the
State's electricity grid or to help build chemical weapons, both
scenarios deemed by experts plausible in the future. The
obligation exists for systems that cost more than 100 million
dollars in calculation power to be trained, a requirement that
has so far not been met by any existing AI model.
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