“One of the biggest challenges, I think, is companies going in saying they’re for regulation, but then they get slammed because they don’t really mean any regulation,” said Katie Harbath, founder and chief executive of the tech policy firm Anchor Change and a former director of public policy at Facebook who worked on global elections. And according to a report from Time magazine, OpenAI spent months lobbying the EU government behind the scenes to avoid having ChatGPT and other models classified as “high risk.” While that effort appears to have been somewhat successful, it highlights the double-edged sword that can cut tech executives trying to sweet-talk policymakers. The United States and China, the two countries leading advances in artificial intelligence, are further behind when it comes to regulation.Īltman has previously criticized the EU legislation, warning last month that OpenAI might have to cease operating within the bloc’s borders before walking back those comments and saying the company had “no plans to leave.” That was during another multi-country trip within Europe that preceded his Asia sojourn, and he also met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen days after making his controversial statements. The European Union’s AI Act-which passed a key vote last week-is only expected to be fully approved by the end of this year and come into force by late 2025. Most countries are still feeling their way around AI legislation. Altman is trying to be the face of both and has balanced his bullishness about the technology’s benefits with warnings about its downsides and calls to institute some guardrails-as long as the guardrails don’t restrain his company too much.Īltman has been looking to parlay his face time with governments around the world into more favorable regulation for his own company. The technology has been front and center in the global conversation this year-spurred on in large part by OpenAI’s advances-and governments are racing to gain an upper hand in innovation and regulation in equal measure. It’s a good time to be talking to world leaders about AI. He even carved out some time to dial into an AI conference in Beijing and engage in a bit of diplomacy himself, calling for “global cooperation” to make AI technology safer and for more exchanges between Chinese and American researchers. He met students, venture capitalists, and leaders including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The chief executive of OpenAI, best known for its artificial intelligence model ChatGPT, visited Israel, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, India, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia in the past two weeks.
Sam Altman has been on a world tour that would put Taylor Swift to shame.
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