Sam Altman testified to Congress todayUnlike what we've seen over the past few years with Tech Giant

May 16, 2023
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Sam Altman testified to Congress today

Unlike what we've seen over the past few years with Tech Giants being called in, and the 'adversarial' style, Altman and Congress seemed birds of a feather in attitude.

Congress wants to get ahead of AI, unlike SocialMedia. They don't want to have another one just growing and breaking things (it broke culture, health, truth, politics), and then try to go backwards and reel it in, which they find themselves going against billionaire/trillionaire companies tied to power. Also, they clearly didn't understand Tech when they were dealing with TechGiants in Congressional hearings. They seem more savvy with AI.

Even though Altman seems to be amenable and docile, will it matter? There was no suggestion of anything that could actually be done. There were some hypothetical suggestions, but nothing said that seemed like something that could actually be effective. Except maybe one interesting thing raised by the woman on the pane. That anything that's AI must be labelled as AI, so we know we're interacting with it, and that we can't be interacting with an AI posing as a person.
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<div>Sam Altman testified to Congress today</div><div><br></div><div>Unlike what we've seen over the past few years with Tech Giants being called in, and the 'adversarial' style, Altman and Congress seemed birds of a feather in attitude. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Congress wants to get ahead of AI, unlike SocialMedia. They don't want to have another one just growing and breaking things (it broke culture, health, truth, politics), and then try to go backwards and reel it in, which they find themselves going against billionaire/trillionaire companies tied to power. Also, they clearly didn't understand Tech when they were dealing with TechGiants in Congressional hearings. They seem more savvy with AI.</div><div><br></div><div>Even though Altman seems to be amenable and docile, will it matter? There was no suggestion of anything that could actually be done. There were some hypothetical suggestions, but nothing said that seemed like something that could actually be effective. Except maybe one interesting thing raised by the woman on the pane. That anything that's AI must be labelled as AI, so we know we're interacting with it, and that we can't be interacting with an AI posing as a person. <br></div>
Sam Altman testified to Congress today

Unlike what we've seen over the past few years with Tech Giants being called in, and the 'adversarial' style, Altman and Congress seemed birds of a feather in attitude.

Congress wants to get ahead of AI, unlike SocialMedia. They don't want to have another one just growing and breaking things (it broke culture, health, truth, politics), and then try to go backwards and reel it in, which they find themselves going against billionaire/trillionaire companies tied to power. Also, they clearly didn't understand Tech when they were dealing with TechGiants in Congressional hearings. They seem more savvy with AI.

Even though Altman seems to be amenable and docile, will it matter? There was no suggestion of anything that could actually be done. There were some hypothetical suggestions, but nothing said that seemed like something that could actually be effective. Except maybe one interesting thing raised by the woman on the pane. That anything that's AI must be labelled as AI, so we know we're interacting with it, and that we can't be interacting with an AI posing as a person.

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