Sam Altman
The announcement comes amid intensifying discussions about the risks of AI, from biosecurity to economic and technological centralization, livemint.com notes.
The needs of modern AI: from innovation to control
Leaders from the technology sector and policymakers are discussing at the AI Impact Summit in India how to regulate rapidly evolving AI technologies.
Sam Altman, head of OpenAI said, “Democratizing AI is the only fair and safe way forward, because centralizing technology in one company or country can have disastrous consequences.”
The head of ChatGPT’s co-creator company proposed the creation of a new international organization, similar to the IAEA, to coordinate risk assessment and transparency in the development of powerful AI systems. Sam Altman noted that the issues of biosecurity, automated threats, and the impact of AI on labor markets require collective efforts on a global level.
“We can choose to either empower people or concentrate power around a narrow set of players,” The Economic Times quoted him as saying.
Regulatory and ethics initiatives
The statement came in the context of multiple initiatives to integrate AI into social and commercial spheres, including plans by OpenAI and local partners to expand AI infrastructure in India, where the number of active ChatGPT users exceeds 100 million per week.
Other regulatory measures being discussed at the summit range from multilingual requirements for training data to standards for the ethical development and use of AI.
Representatives of states and international organizations also propose the “New Delhi Commitments” – a set of principles aimed at safe, inclusive and data-driven development of advanced AI.
Experts say Altman’s proposal reflects the international community’s growing interest in creating more formal and harmonized rules for AI governance.
If these calls are heeded, the industry’s development vector for the coming years could change significantly.
