The owner of CHAT-GPT, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has said that there are no intentions for the business to exit E.U.
The CEO of OpenAI – Sam Altman, who owns CHAT-GPT, has said that the company has no plans to leave the European Union (E.U.).
His remarks came in response to speculations that OpenAI may leave the European Union (E.U.) if it becomes too hard to comply with upcoming laws on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The E.U. is working on what could be the first set of rules globally to govern AI. The E.U. wants companies creating advanced AI must work together to formulate a comprehensive set of metrics that can be reported regularly and consistently to regulators and the public.
Very recently, Altman travelled to Europe and the United Kingdom where he met the Chancellor of Germany – Olaf Scholz, the President of France – Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister of the U.K. – Rishi Sunak. During his visit, he discussed that AI has the potential to transform and grow the economy.
Taking it to Twitter, Altman tweeted,
very productive week of conversations in europe about how to best regulate AI! we are excited to continue to operate here and of course have no plans to leave.
— Sam Altman (@sama) May 26, 2023
Prior to this, he said that the current draft of the E.U. AI Act was over-regulating. His threat of quitting Europe had drawn criticism from the European Commissioner for Internal Markets – Thierry Breton.
OpenAI had faced criticism for not disclosing training data for its latest AI model GPT-4. The company had cited a “competitive landscape and safety implications” for not disclosing the details. While debating the AI Act draft, E.U. lawmakers added new proposals that would force any company using generative tools, like ChatGPT, to disclose copyrighted material used to train its systems.
The AI-powered ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft, has created new possibilities around AI and fears around its potential have provoked excitement and alarm and brought it into conflict with regulators. OpenAI first clashed with regulators in March 2023, when Italian data regulator – Garante shut the app down domestically, accusing OpenAI of flouting European privacy rules. ChatGPT came back online after the company instituted new privacy measures for users.
OpenAI has said it will award 10 equal grants from a fund of U.S. $ 1 million for experiments to determine how AI software should be governed?. Altman called those grants “How to democratically decide on the behaviour of AI systems.”
For the records, during the recently concluded G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the United States (U.S.), U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada agreed that creating a trustworthy AI should be an international endeavour.
