are struggling in the heat. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington where the head of the company behind the artificial intelligence tool, chatgpt, has told lawmakers 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 also 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 i
across asia mean some workers live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington where the head of the company behind the artificial intelligence tool chatgpt has told lawmakers 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 also 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
when chatgpt was launched in november, it really took the world by storm, didn t it? you ve looked into the human behavioural aspects of ai. is there anything else that ai will be able to do to change our lives? i think it s pretty amazing. i mean, when chatgpt came out, i spent the winter holidays programming a video game, using it with my kids who are, you know, eight and ten. and the things that we can do are just totally different than what we could do. i think the thing that s interesting is the things that we can t even quite imagine yet that are going to happen very soon. and troubling are the potential implications for the way our political life and our public life precedes. but what about the danger of spreading misinformation, though? that wasn t exactly addressed in that hearing, was it? yeah, they touched on misinformation. and i think the danger of misinformation is very big and very real. although i m a little bit
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 we ve been 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. we want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. but we try to be very clear eyed about what the downside case is and the work that we have to do to mitigate that. so who is sam altman, the man in the hot seat, and at the forefront of this emerging technology? to start, he s an influential investor and entrepreneur in silicon valley. his start up chatgpt has 100 million monthly users. he started openai with spacex founder and twitter owner elon musk back in 2015, before the two went their separate ways.
members of the public. but it did feel like a bit of a moment. and after this hearing, i think we can be pretty confident that there is going to be some kind of new regulator established in the us. i m quite sure there ll be a new regulator in the eu and probably in the uk too. so who is sam altman, the man in the hot seat, and at the forefront of this emerging technology? to start, he s an influential investor and entrepreneur in silicon valley. his start up chatgpt has 100 million monthly users. he started openai with spacex founder and twitter owner elon musk back in 2015, before the two went their separate ways. altman has reportedly been described a start up yoda and even compared to another famous tech wizard, bill gates. noah goodman, associate professor of psychology