hello. i m tadhg enright. welcome to the programme. the head of the company behind the artificial intelligence tool chatgpt has told lawmakers in the us that government regulation is crucial to keep the industry safe. we ve seen tech ceos get a congressional grilling before, but that s not what happened here. appearing before a senate panel, sam altman said that al could be as significant as the invention of the printing press, claiming it had the potential to improve nearly every aspect of our lives. but he admitted the technology also poses serious risks. my worst fears are that we cause significant. we, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. i think that could happen in a lot of different ways. it s why we started the company. it s a big part of why i m here today, and why we ve been here in the past, and able to spend some time with you. i think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. and we want to be vocal about that.
all seemed pretty much agreeing on a solution which is that there needs to be some kind of regulator, an agency that has specific laws that they work with that has real teeth to regulate the entire industry, and it is actually pretty unusual to get someone like sam altmann who is a tech chief executive saying, yes, regulate me, i want regulation! even pointed out what kind of regulation he wanted, he wants an agency to be able to give licenses to companies like open ai licenses to companies like open alto licenses to companies like open a! to be able to carry out a! al to be able to carry out a! research, and if they don t live up to those standards, that he wants a regulator to take those licenses away. that is what he is saying and many democrats and republicans agreed. some republicans want laws to make it easier for open ai laws to make it easier for open alto laws to make it easier for open a! to be sued byjust general al to be sued byjust general members of the public, but it did