OpenAI’s CEO casts global gaze in urging AI regulation in US

US Congress is debating the potential and pitfalls of artificial intelligence as products like ChatGPT raise questions about the future of creative industries and the ability to tell fact from fiction. — Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg

OpenAI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman plans to tell Congress that artificial intelligence technology is becoming so powerful that the US and other governments should consider imposing regulation on products "above a crucial threshold of capabilities.”

Altman, who will testify for the first time since OpenAI’s ChatGPT exploded in popularity, plans to say that artificial intelligence companies should be subjected to a "combination of licensing or registration requirements” for the release of advanced models, according to his prepared remarks, which don’t specify what that threshold would look like.