Artificial intelligence: OpenAI boss warns of possible election manipulation by AI

The head of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, Sam Altman , expects more content created by artificial intelligence (AI) than human-made in the future. Society must also deal with the negative consequences of AI and prepare accordingly, said Altman. Artificial intelligence could, among other things, have potentially negative effects on elections in the foreseeable future.

Risks such as cybersecurity and bioweapons are also being taken more seriously, said Altman. Artificial intelligence will “not just be a good story.”

According to Altman, positive effects of AI include support in scientific research, the medical field and education. The bottom line is that there will be a positive development with AI, he was convinced. However, even more important than with other technologies is a regulatory role for governments.

According to Altman, regulations should come quickly

Regulations for artificial intelligence need to come as quickly as possible, while AI models are still relatively weak, Altman said. It should not happen that, for example, OpenAI secretly develops an AI that is smarter than humans and suddenly releases it onto the world. Society and its institutions must be given enough time to gradually prepare for development.

The chatbot ChatGPT sparked a hype about artificial intelligence in November 2022. Such AI chatbots are trained with large amounts of information and can formulate texts at the linguistic level of a human, write software code and summarize information. However, chatbots sometimes give completely wrong answers, even if they were only based on correct information.

Newer AI like OpenAI’s Sora system can create images and even videos in addition to more complex texts.

The head of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, Sam Altman , expects more content created by artificial intelligence (AI) than human-made in the future. Society must also deal with the negative consequences of AI and prepare accordingly, said Altman. Artificial intelligence could, among other things, have potentially negative effects on elections in the foreseeable future.

Risks such as cybersecurity and bioweapons are also being taken more seriously, said Altman. Artificial intelligence will “not just be a good story.”

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