OpenAI’s Sam Altman Disagrees with Elon Musk on Pausing AI Research

While Tesla co-founder Elon Musk called for a halt to AI research, OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman believes that regulations for OpenAI and large companies are a good solution. Altman spoke at the ET Conversations event and suggested external audits and red teaming safety tests as measures to keep the technology in check. He emphasised the importance of safety standards and compliance. Musk, one of the founders of OpenAI, wrote an open letter in March advocating for a six-month halt in the training of systems more powerful than OpenAI‘s latest model, GPT-4. Altman disagrees with Musk’s stance and his comments about OpenAI becoming effectively controlled by Microsoft. The company moved from being a non-profit to a capped profit company in 2019 to rapidly increase investment and attract talent. Investors and employees can get a capped return, while returns beyond the cap would be owned by the original non-profit entity.