OpenAI CEO Calls for Global Cooperation to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, has called for global regulation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) during a trip to Seoul, in which he met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. Altman, along with hundreds of other experts, recently warned of the risk of human extinction from AI, calling for mitigating its impact to become a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. Altman explained that the speed of adoption was the key concern. He called for international cooperation among countries to formulate approaches to regulating AI and addressing the labour market shifts it will cause. Altman also emphasised that AI will bring many new job opportunities, with the greatest golden age of human possibility and technological development imminent.