Sam Altman Urges China to Participate in Developing AI Safety Regulations
According to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI Inc., China has a crucial part to play in establishing the necessary guidelines for artificial intelligence to guarantee the security of revolutionary new technologies.
“With the emergence of increasingly powerful AI systems, the stakes for global collaboration have never been higher,” Altman, whose company sparked the AI frenzy in China with the launch of ChatGPT last year, told a Beijing conference via video link on Saturday. .
In both China and Silicon Valley, talent and investment are pouring into artificial intelligence, a strategic area that is helping to define the deepening technological competition between the world’s two largest economies. Developments in the emerging technology have also highlighted tensions over governments’ efforts to regulate the sector, which Chinese President Xi Jinping says calls for greater state oversight to mitigate national security risks.
“China has some of the best AI talent in the world, and fundamentally, given the difficulty of adapting advanced AI systems, this requires the best creators from around the world,” Altman told attendees at an event hosted by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence. Intelligence.
Altman’s speech at the Beijing conference itself was significant, as the Academy has positioned itself strongly in the artificial intelligence sector in China. A Chinese non-profit organization supported by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Beijing’s local government has been named one of three pioneers in artificial intelligence innovation by Microsoft CEO Brad Smith.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is currently unavailable in China, where longstanding data and censorship regulations have long blocked services from Western tech giants such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook. Experts have said that complex data and algorithm laws also make it difficult for Western companies to penetrate AI in the country.
China’s technology watchdog announced in a draft regulatory guideline that the burden of algorithm and content requirements in the country may fall largely on platform operators. The Government announced in June that it plans to discuss AI legislation later this year.
Altman said on Saturday that OpenAI plans to open source more of its models in the future as part of its efforts to advance AI security, without specifying a timetable or specific model.
The tech entrepreneur’s Beijing speech was part of the Asian leg of his global goodwill tour to promote AI governance. In London at the end of May, Altman clashed with European Union regulators after saying OpenAI would pull out of the region if proposed AI laws were passed that would hold companies accountable for the use of their systems.
