OpenAI CEO Acknowledges Importance of Caution with ChatGPT

The CEO of OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, has acknowledged that the artificial intelligence-powered bot could have both positive and negative effects on society. AI has the potential to reshape society, but it also comes with real dangers, including misinformation and the possibility of cyberattacks by foreign entities.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told ABC News on Sunday that he was happy that people were a little scared of ChatGPT, saying, “I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this.” Altman specifically mentioned the risk of what happens when people with less than honorable interests get their hands on the technology. “There will be other people who don’t put some of the safety limits that we put on. Society, I think, has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that, how to regulate that, how to handle it,” he said.

Altman also noted the software’s inability to fact-check and what he called the “hallucinations problem,” where the model confidently states things as if they were facts that are entirely made up. OpenAI is attempting to counter this problem by having the bot use deductive reasoning rather than memorization, allowing it to process statements in real time.

OpenAI launched the latest version of its software, GPT-4, on Tuesday. The bot has a faster response rate and can process image prompts. Microsoft provided more than $10 billion to OpenAI to help with bot development. Still, the company recently fired one of the teams overseeing ethics questions around artificial intelligence, causing some concerns about the safety and potential political biases of the bot.

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