Earlier this week, Sam Altman threatened that OpenAI would leave Europe if complying with future Artificial Intelligence laws imposed by the European Union became complicated. Not even a week has passed, and according to Reuters the director of OpenAI has already rectified, ensuring that there are no plans for the company to leave the regionand that they are happy to operate in the EU.
After threatening a few days ago that the Artificial Intelligence company he runs would stop operating in Europe, Sam Altman has received much criticism from the European Union’s technology sector, as well as from EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and other EU lawmakers. zone. The European Union is working on what could become the world’s first set of rules to regulate AI, and Altman doesn’t seem to be keen on the idea. In fact, he has described the draft laws as “overly regulatory«.
The executive has spent a week touring Europe, meeting with politicians from France, Poland, Germany and Great Britain. He has also been in Spain, where he has met with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, about the future of Artificial Intelligence and the progress of ChatGPT. Altman has described his trip as “a very productive week of talks in Europe on how to regulate AI«.
OpenAI has been heavily criticized for not publishing training data for its latest AI model, GPT-4, citing security implications and the state of current competition for not doing so. This, for example, would not be possible for Europe’s AI regulation law, because its developers have specifically added several new proposals to force all companies using generative tools, such as ChatGPT, to make copyrighted material public. author that they use to train their systems.
European parliamentarians agreed on the draft law earlier this month, and member states, the European Commission and Parliament will finalize its final details before the end of this year.
According to Dragos Tudorache, member of the European Parliament leading the creation of the draft of EU proposals for the regulation of AI, has indicated that “its provisions are related above all to transparency, which ensures that the AI and the company that develops it are trustworthy. I don’t see why a company would want to stay away from transparency.”
For her part, the Dutch MEP Kim van Sparrentakwho has worked closely on the drafting of the proposed regulations to regulate AI, has assured that she and her colleagues must resist the pressures of the technological ones, pointing out that they will ensure “that these companies have to comply with clear obligations regarding transparency, security and environmental standards. Voluntary codes of conduct do not exist in Europe«.
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