industry. artificial intelligence or ai. the ceo of openai testified before the senate judiciary committee today. the company is behind chatgpt. that s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ai. there are multiple apps and programs you can use to create art, pictures, phone calls, even to impersonate people s voices. the list of potential misuses of ai is getting longer every day and leads to numerous questions about how and what and whether to regulate. nick watt takes a closer look at some of the possibly life changing benefits and also terrifying risks posed by ai brought up in today s hearing. my worst fears are that we cause significant, we, the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. today s is that the hearing is a crucial step in humanity s effort to prevent that harm and to reign in the handful of players controlling this tech. i think there needs to be incredible scrutiny on us and our competitors. his company created
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not carry any weight in china where a lot of the same technology is already advancing in some cases faster than it is in the united states. we hear a lot about chatgpt, but there are similar large language models so the same types of very powerful tools that exist in china and whatever regulations we come up with will have little bearing. it is a good idea to have somebody in our government taking the longer view. we used to have something called the office of technology assessment. they were charged not with making regulations, but making our regulators informed. they were a nonpartisan group of scientists and researchers. all they did was help the people who were in charge of regulating these things just get up to speed and be more informed so we weren t relying on third parties. that got defunded in the 90s. it left this incredible vacuum. chatgpt is just one area of
everybody, every expert tells me we need to education ourselves so we know what s coming down the pike and how it s fwgoing t impact us. we tepnd to trail the advancs in technology by several, several years. thanks so much. joining us to discuss, amy webb. professor at new york university stern school of business and much more. we heard sam altman say one of his biggest concern s for ai to be used to manipulate voters to spread election disinformation. i mean, we ve seen videos of trump and biden that were not real go viral. ones generated by ai. how worried are you this could be a real problem as we head into 2024? sure. well i think senator blumenthal used it along side a voice cloning tool to prove how simple
it would be for anybody to generate content auto magically. these stunts we continue to see over and over again aren t moving the needle in mateterms getting the outcome we want. we ve been here before. congress has a terrible track record of staying on the same pace as technology and trying to use the same regulatory actions and tools we have that make sense in other fields and applying them to the space where so much is happening so fast. one of the witnesses in today s hearing suggested there should be a cabinet level agency created inside the u.s. government to regulate artificial intelligence. realistically though, how do you begin to put regulations on something that is already out there and it s obviously not just in the united states. whatever we do here won t necessarily have any impact on russia or iran on china or anywhere else. jake, that s an excellent point. regardless of what regulatory frameworks we develop, they will