OpenAI chief Altman: EU should be 'proactive' with AI regulation

Altman does not believe in the possibility of completely unbiased AI. The question of whose values the systems should be guided by must be clarified, he said. — Photo by Yoan VALAT/POOL/AFP

MUNICH: Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, the company that released ChatGPT, said on Thursday said the European Union should be actively regulating artificial intelligence (AI).

Speaking at an event at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) he said that he is generally of the opinion that it is better to wait and see what happens and then react responsibly, but there are situations "where we should be proactive" and AI regulation is one of them.