Altman told reporters in London yesterday that while OpenAI would try to comply with the EU law, if it found it could not, it would simply have to pull its services and products from the European market. They also must publish a summary of any training data that is copyright-protected. The new law would require companies training foundation models to ensure that they train, design and deploy their models with safeguards to ensure they are not breaching EU laws in areas such as data privacy. At the same time, Altman has said it may be hard for OpenAI to comply with a new European Union law, the Artificial Intelligence Act, that is currently being finalized. That drew derision on social media from those concerned with Silicon Valley’s approach to A.I., many of whom expressed dismay that lawmakers seemed so deferential to the OpenAI chief. regulatory agency he was proposing, Altman demurred, saying he was happy with his current job, while offering to provide the senators with a list of qualified candidates. senator suggested that Altman himself might be a good choice to head the new A.I. system that can perform the majority of cognitive tasks as well as humans (essentially, a form of superintelligence). But he has also said that new rules, and probably new government bodies, are needed to deal with the risk of artificial general intelligence, or a single A.I. developers to bypass the data centers of major cloud computing providers and, consequently, the type of licensing system Microsoft is proposing.Īltman, in his remarks before the Senate subcommittee and in recent speeches, has said OpenAI is not in favor of regulatory capture and that it wants to see the open-source community thrive. At least one startup, called Together, has also proposed harnessing unused computing capacity-including people’s laptops-into networks for training large A.I. software are unlikely to be able to meet Microsoft’s proposed KYC regime, because open-source models can be downloaded by anyone and used for almost any purpose. In many cases, these open-source models have been able to mimic the capabilities of the large-foundation models built by OpenAI and Google.īut, by their very nature, those offering open-source A.I. models being developed by startups, academics, collectives of A.I. models served through tightly controlled application programming interfaces (APIs), such as Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google, are already facing competition from a host of open-source A.I. The companies betting big on proprietary A.I. will be subject to “regulatory capture”-where large corporations shape the regulatory environment to suit their own business objectives, while using rules and licensing requirements to keep out competitors. Some fear that this kind of a governance regime for advanced A.I. Microsoft’s decision to back a new regulatory agency and a licensing regime for A.I. companies working on foundation models should “know one’s cloud, one’s customers, and one’s content.” systems that would be similar to the one financial services companies are required to implement to prevent money laundering and sanctions busting. Microsoft advocated a “know your customer” (KYC) framework for companies developing advanced A.I. models should have to be licensed, and that the data centers used to train and run them should also be subject to licensing. Microsoft also said it thought that these powerful, highly capable A.I. models, Smith said there will be a need for “new law and regulations…best implemented by a new government agency.” Because many different types of applications can be built on top of these general-purpose A.I. applications, it singled out so-called foundation models as a special case. While Microsoft said that existing legal frameworks and regulatory efforts were probably best suited for handling most A.I. The announcement, which was made by Microsoft president Brad Smith during a speech at the company’s annual Build developer conference and an accompanying blog post, echoes recommendations that Sam Altman, the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, which is closely partnered with Microsoft, made in testimony before a U.S.
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