OpenAI首席执行官山姆·奥特曼周二警告联邦立法者人工智能如果这项技术陷入恶性循环，可能会“对世界造成重大伤害”。
“我认为如果这项技术出错，它可能会出错，”奥特曼告诉参议院委员会，他的公司开发了广泛使用的人工智能驱动的对话程序ChatGPT。
反过来，奥特曼呼吁政府干预，以防止人工智能的最坏影响和滥用。
像其他人工智能聊天机器人一样，ChatGPT可以立即响应用户关于广泛主题的提示，生成一篇关于莎士比亚的文章或一组给定目的地的旅行提示。
微软发射3月份推出的必应搜索引擎的一个版本，提供由ChatGPT的最新型号GPT-4提供的回复。竞争对手搜索公司谷歌在2月份宣布了一个名为Bard的人工智能模型。
然而，像ChatGPT和Bard这样的程序引起了人们对偏见、错误信息和其他潜在有害反应的关注。
“GPT-4比任何其他广泛部署的具有类似能力的型号更有可能做出有益和真实的回应，并拒绝有害的请求，”奥尔特曼周二表示。
2023年5月16日，在华盛顿特区国会山举行的参议院司法小组委员会隐私、技术和法律监督听证会上，OpenAI首席执行官塞缪尔·奥尔特曼(Samuel Altman)审查了人工智能。
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“然而，我们认为政府的监管干预对于减轻日益强大的模型的风险至关重要，”他补充说，建议采用人工智能模型运行所需的许可证或安全要求。
最近几个月，随着ChatGPT等重大突破的出现，人工智能带来的风险引起了更大的关注。
数百名科技领袖，包括亿万富翁企业家埃隆·马斯克和苹果联合创始人史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克，签名3月份的一封公开信呼吁暂停人工智能系统的开发六个月，并大幅扩大政府监管。
“具有人类竞争智能的人工智能系统可能会给社会和人类带来深远的风险，”信中说。
马斯克上个月在接受福克斯新闻频道主持人塔克·卡尔森采访时表示提高进一步警告:“肯定有一条通往人工智能反乌托邦的道路，那就是训练人工智能具有欺骗性。”
OpenAI于2015年作为非营利组织推出，自那以来发展迅速，并转型为一家营利性公司。
今年1月，微软宣布向OpenAI投资100亿美元。此举加深了微软和OpenAI之间的长期关系，这种关系始于四年前的10亿美元投资。
“这是一个非凡的时代人工智能但是随着这项技术的进步，我们知道人们担心它会如何改变我们的生活方式。我们也是。"
OpenAI CEO warns Senate: 'If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong'
OpenAI CEOSam Altmanon Tuesday warned federal lawmakers thatartificial intelligencecould cause "significant harm to the world" if the technology falls into a downward spiral.
"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong," Altman, whose company developed the widely used AI-driven conversation program ChatGPT, told a Senate committee.
In turn, Altman called for government intervention to protect against the worst effects and abuses of AI.
Like other AI-enabled chat bots, ChatGPT can immediately respond to prompts from users on a wide range of subjects, generating an essay on Shakespeare or a set of travel tips for a given destination.
Microsoftlauncheda version of its Bing search engine in March that offers responses delivered by GPT-4, the latest model of ChatGPT. Rival search company Google in February announced an AI model called Bard.
Programs like ChatGPT and Bard, however, have raised concern about bias, misinformation and other potentially harmful responses.
"GPT-4 is more likely to respond helpfully and truthfully, and refuse harmful requests, than any other widely deployed model of similar capability," Altman said on Tuesday.
"However, we think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models," he added, suggesting the adoption of licenses or safety requirements necessary for the operation of AI models.
The risks posed by AI have drawn greater attention in recent months in response to major breakthroughs like ChatGPT.
Hundreds of tech leaders, including billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak,signedan open letter in March calling for a six-month pause in the development of AI systems and a major expansion of government oversight.
"AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity," the letter said.
In comments last month to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Muskraisedfurther alarm: "There's certainly a path to AI dystopia, which is to train AI to be deceptive."
OpenAI, which launched in 2015 as a nonprofit, has grown dramatically since then and transformed into a for-profit company.
In January, Microsoft announced it was investing $10 billion in OpenAI. The move deepened a longstanding relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI, which began with a $1 billion investment four years ago.
"This is a remarkable time to be working onartificial intelligencebut as this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live," Altman said on Tuesday. "We are too."
