OpenAI’s CEO Calls on China to Help Shape AI Safety Guidelines
- Powerful AI systems need global cooperation, Altman says
- OpenAI chief spoke at conference hosted by Beijing academy
Sam Altman speaking at an event in Seoul on Friday.
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China should play a key role in shaping the artificial intelligence guardrails needed to ensure the safety of transformative new systems, OpenAI Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said.
“With the emergence of the increasingly powerful AI systems, the stakes for global cooperation have never been higher,” Altman, whose company kick-started an AI frenzy in China with last year’s launch of ChatGPT, told a Beijing conference via video link on Saturday.