Y Combinator President Sam Altman pauses during the New Jobs Summit on Monday, February 25, 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California, USA.
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In just two days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to have reversed his public opinion on AI regulation in Europe — first threatening to stop operations in Europe if the regulation crossed the line, then changing the His statement, that the company has “no intention of leaving”
Altman spoke to reporters in London on Wednesday, detailing his concerns According to the British “Financial Times”, regarding the EU’s artificial intelligence bill, the bill will be finalized in 2024.
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“The details really matter,” Altman reportedly said. “We will try to comply, but if we cannot comply, we will cease operations.”
Originally, the legislation — potentially the first of its kind in terms of AI governance — was drafted for “high-risk” uses of AI, such as medical devices, hiring and lending decisions. Now, amid the rush to generate artificial intelligence, lawmakers are proposing expanded rules: Makers of large machine learning systems and tools, such as large language models, would be required to disclose the content generated by the AI and any subject data released as training data for their systems. Summary of Copyright Protection Information.
open artificial intelligence incur criticism Because GPT-4 (one of the models behind ChatGPT) has no public methods or training data after its release.
“The current draft EU AI bill would be over-regulatory, but we hear it will be withdrawn,” Altman said in London on Wednesday. According to Reuters. “They’re still talking about it.”
legislators told Reuters The draft was not debated and Dragos Tudorache, a Romanian member of the European Parliament, said he “doesn’t see any dilution happening in the short term”.
Less than 48 hours after his initial comments that operations might cease, Altman tweets About “a very productive week of conversations in Europe about how best to regulate AI,” adding that the OpenAI team is “happy to continue doing business here and certainly has no plans to leave.”
According to the Financial Times, the European Commission and member states will negotiate the latest proposal for an EU artificial intelligence bill next year.