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© Reuters ChatGPT founder faces backlash from EU lawmakers
Proactive Investors - European lawmakers drafting an AI regulation bill have hit back at comments made by OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, during his trip to meet officials across the continent.
The AI firm’s chief executive officer said he would consider pulling ChatGPT from Europe if the technology became “overregulated”.
The machine-learning group has indicated a desire for changes to be made to the EU AI Act, which is currently being drawn up in Brussels by regulators.
It would be the first set of regulations to be introduced for the technology, following the meteoric rise of AI in less than a year.
“The current draft of the EU AI Act would be over-regulating, but we have heard it's going to get pulled back,” Altman said in London on Wednesday.
Some regulators involved with the act have disputed these claims, arguing they are not basing the laws on the ChatGPT creator’s comments.
Dragos Tudorache, a Romanian Member of European Parliament (MEP) leading the drafting of EU proposals said: "I don't see any dilution happening anytime soon.
“We are nevertheless happy to invite Mr Altman to Parliament so he can voice his concerns and hear European lawmakers' thoughts on these issues.”
European industry chief, Thierry Breton, warned Altman that the EU’s rules “cannot be bargained.”
“[The EU] shouldn’t let ourselves be blackmailed by American companies,” added Kim van Sparrentak, a Dutch MEP.
The bill follows a series of warnings that have been made by executives and experts in the AI field, concerned about the dangers of the technology falling into the hands of “bad actors”.
On Thursday, a former Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) boss warned that AI had the potential to kill “many many people”.
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