Openai: OpenAI CEO on how ChatGPT like AI can be regulated and “governance of superintelligence” – Times of India

We are in the midst of an AI boom. Artificial intelligence has been gathering steam for a while now and it seems like all anyone can talk about is the role it will play. All the AI chatter has got governments and authorities worried and there is talk of regulating AI. Not just governments but the likes of Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk have also been extremely vocal about the need of regulating AI. Joining them is none other than Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Altman, along with two other senior OpenAI executives, Greg Brockerman and Ilya Sutskever penned their thoughts on “superintelligence” in a blog post.
“In terms of both potential upsides and downsides, superintelligence will be more powerful than other technologies humanity has had to contend with in the past,” Altman noted in the blog post.
Special treatment and coordination needed
OpenAI believes that there needs to be some degree of coordination “among the leading development efforts to ensure that the development of superintelligence occurs in a manner that allows us to both maintain safety and help smooth integration of these systems with society.” The company believes that governments could set up a project that companies can become part of.
Apart from that Altman and OpenAI also feel that there needs to be an agency to keep a check on AI developments. “Any effort above a certain capability (or resources like compute) threshold will need to be subject to an international authority that can inspect systems, require audits, test for compliance with safety standards, place restrictions on degrees of deployment and levels of security, etc,” the blog post noted.
Not a surprise but OpenAI believes the potential of AI is tremendous. “Given the picture as we see it now, it’s conceivable that within the next ten years, AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains, and carry out as much productive activity as one of today’s largest corporations,” the company executives said.