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Many countries are planning AI regulation, and Britain is
hosting a global AI safety summit in November, focusing on
understanding the risks posed by the frontier technology and how
national and international frameworks could be supported.
Sam Altman, CEO and the public face of the startup OpenAI,
backed by Microsoft Corp, said during a visit to Taipei that
although he was not that worried about government
over-regulation, it could happen.
"I also worry about under-regulation. People in our industry
bash regulation a lot. We've been calling for regulation, but
only of the most powerful systems," he said.
"Models that are like 10,000 times the power of GPT4, models
that are like as smart as human civilization, whatever, those
probably deserve some regulation," added Altman, speaking at an
AI event hosted by the charitable foundation of Terry Gou, the
founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn.
Altman said that in the tech industry there is a "reflexive
anti-regulation thing".
"Regulation has been not a pure good, but it's been good in a
lot of ways. I don't want to have to make an opinion about every
time I step on an airplane how safe it's going to be, but I
trust that they're pretty safe and I think regulation has been a
positive good there," he said.
"It is possible to get regulation wrong, but I don't think we
sit around and fear it. In fact we think some version of it is
important."
Gou, currently running as an independent candidate to be
Taiwan's next president, sat in the audience, but did not speak
at the forum.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard, editing by Ed Osmond)
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