The remarks from Matsuno, a top government spokesperson, came shortly before Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, met Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida during a visit to Japan, where Altman said his company is “looking at opening an office”.
Asked about Italy’s temporary ban on ChatGPT – developed by Microsoft Corp backed OpenAI – Matsuno told a news conference that Japan is aware of other countries’ actions.
Japan will continue evaluating possibilities of introducing AI to reduce government workers’ workload after assessing how to respond to concerns such as data breaches, Matsuno said.
Italy ban
Last week, Italy temporarily banned the use of ChatGPT — the generative AI chatbot created by OpenAI — over privacy concerns, according to media reports.
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“The Italian SA imposed an immediate temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ data by OpenAI, the US-based company developing and managing the platform. An inquiry into the facts of the case was initiated as well,” read the official statement from Italy’s data protection authority.The move came days after a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives, along with Twitter CEO and OpenAI confounder Elon Musk wrote an open letter to the US Federal Trade Commission calling for a six-month pause in training systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched model GPT-4.
The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people including Musk, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind, as well as AI heavyweights Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, called for a pause on advanced AI development until shared safety protocols for such designs were developed, implemented and audited by independent experts.
The statement from the Italian authorities said that a data breach affecting ChatGPT users’ conversations and information on payments by subscribers to the service was reported on 20 March.
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