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Democrats push Sam Altman on OpenAI’s safety record
They want to know if “federal intervention” is warranted.
In the same post, Altman also said that OpenAI has removed non-disparagement clauses for employees and provisions allowing the cancellation of vested equity, a key issue in Warren’s letter. Last year, in front of the Senate, Altman warned that AI’s capabilities could be “significantly destabilizing for public safety and national security” and emphasized the impossibility of anticipating every potential abuse or failure of the technology. These warnings seemed to resonate with lawmakers—in OpenAI’s home state of California, Senator Scott Wiener is pushing for a bill to regulate large language models, including restrictions that would hold companies legally accountable if their AI is used in harmful ways.
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