VentureBeat May 16, 2023
In his testimony today before a bipartisan U.S. Senate panel, in which he agreed with calls for a regulatory agency for AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was not grilled, probed or interrogated á la Mark Zuckerberg in the late 2010s.
Instead Altman was hailed by committee chairperson Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) as an executive who “cares deeply and intensely”; greeted by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) as a fellow Missourian (Altman grew up in St. Louis); called a “unicorn” by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), referring to OpenAI’s onetime nonprofit status; and asked by Senator John Kennedy what regulations he and the other witnesses would implement “if you were queen or king for a day” — with a follow-up asking if Altman...
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