OpenAI leadership weighed the pros and cons of trying to stop the development of superhuman AI and decided it was in humanity’s best interest to forge ahead.
Governing Superintelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, chief technology officer Greg Brockman and lead scientist Ilya Sutskever recently penned a blog post detailing OpenAI’s stance on the development and governance of “superintelligence.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, the company — widely accepted as the current industry leader in generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies — believes that it would be riskier not to develop superhuman AI than it would be to press forward with its endeavors. The potential for AI systems to reach human level (a paradigm often referred to as “AGI,” or artificial general intelligence) or, as OpenAI warns, to exceed even expert-level human capabilities, remains widely debated. Many experts claim it’s far from inevitable that machines will ever meet or exceed our own cognitive abilities.
The blog post suggests increased government oversight, involving the public in the decision-making process and stronger collaboration between developers and companies in the space. These points reflect the answers Altman gave in response to queries from Senate subcommittee members in a recent congressional hearing. In explaining the apparent conundrum, the authors suggest that stopping the purportedly inevitable creation of a superintelligent AI would require a global surveillance regime. “And even that,” they write, “isn’t guaranteed to work.”
Regulatory Limbo
Ultimately, the authors appear to conclude that, in order to develop the necessary controls and governance mechanisms to protect humanity from a superintelligent AI, OpenAI must continue working toward the creation of a superintelligent AI. As the global debate over exactly how these technologies and their development should be governed and regulated continues, the cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3 communities remain stuck in a familiar kind of regulatory limbo.
AI has permeated every tech sector, and fintech is no exception. With cryptocurrency trading bots built on the back of ChatGPT and the GPT API and countless exchanges implementing AI solutions into their analysis and customer service platforms, any regulatory efforts affecting the development of consumer-facing AI products such as ChatGPT could have a disruptive impact on both industries.
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Source: Cointelegraph
