OpenAI’s Altman Sees UAE as World’s AI Regulatory Testing Ground
- Altman calls for ‘contained’ experiments before regulation
- He says Mideast country could lead talks on global AI rules
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman said the United Arab Emirates could serve as the world’s “regulatory sandbox” to test artificial intelligence technologies and later spearhead global rules limiting their use.
“It’s very hard to get all the regulatory ideas right in a vacuum,” Altman told the UAE’s AI minister in a virtual appearance at the World Governments Summit. “And if there was a contained way that I could give people the future and let them experiment with it and then see what makes sense, what went wrong, what went right, that seems like an interesting experiment.”